Making Citizens in Africa: Ethnicity, Gender, and National Identity in Ethiopia

Name: Making Citizens in Africa: Ethnicity, Gender, and National Identity in Ethiopia
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ISBN: 9781107035317

ISBN-10: 1107035317

ISBN-13: 9781107035317

Edition: 2013

Authors: Lahra Smith

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Making Citizens in Africa argues that citizenship creation and expansion is a pivotal part of political contestation in Africa today. Citizenship is a powerful analytical tool with which to approach political life in contemporary Africa because the institutional and structural reforms of the past two decades have been inextricably linked with the battle over the "right to have rights." Professor Lahra Smith's work advances the notion of meaningful citizenship, which refers to the way in which rights are exercised, or the effective practice of citizenship. Using data from Ethiopia and developing a historically informed and empirically nuanced study of language policy and ethnicity and gender…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Introduction



The Challenge: Unequal Citizenship:



Comparative perspectives on citizen-creation in Africa



The historical context for modern Ethiopian citizenship



The Response: The State and Its Citizens:



Popular responses to unequal citizenship



A referendum on ethnic identity and the claims of citizenship



No going back on self-determination for the Oromo



Ethiopian women and citizenship rights deferred


Conclusion