Taking ethno-cultural diversity seriously in constitutional design : a theory of minority rights for addressing Africa's multiethnic challenge / / by Solomon A. Dersso.

• Author: Dersso, Solomon A.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in International Minority and Group Rights 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Despite decades of nation-building exercise, ethnic-based claims for substantive equality, justice and equitable political inclusion and socio-economic order continue to result in communal rivalries. These are claims that define and represent the issue of minorities in Africa, of which these conflic...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Chapter I – Introduction
• Chapter II – The Issue of Minorities in Africa: Describing its Context and Understanding its Nature
• Chapter III – The Issue of Minorities in the Political and Constitutional Discourse and Practice of Post-colonial Africa
• Chapter IV – The Normative Bases for Constitutional Accommodation of Ethno-Cultural Diversity in Africa: The Three Components of the Minority Rights Framework
• Chapter V – Towards a Multicultural Constitutional Framework: The Institutional Dimensions of the Minority Rights Framework
• Chapter VI – South Africa’s Constitutional Design for the Accommodation of Diversity
• Chapter VII – The Case of Ethiopia’s Ethnic Federalism
• Chapter VIII – Conclusion, Findings and Final Observations
• Bibliography
• Index.