The politics of identity and ethnicity will remain a fundamental characteristic of African modernity. For this reason, historians and anthropologists have joined political scientists in a discussion about the ways in which democracy can develop in multicultural societies. In Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa, the contributors address why ethnicity represents a political problem, how the problem manifests itself, and which institutional models offer ways of ameliorating the challenges that ethnicity poses to democratic nation-building.

Bruce Berman is a professor of political studies at Queen's University, Ontario.

Dickson Eyoh is the director of the African studies program at New College, University of Toronto.

Will Kymlicka holds the Canada Research