This book presents a theory to account for why and when politics revolves around one axis of social cleavage instead of another. It does so by examining the cas

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Focussing on Sub-Saharan Africa, Dominika Koter analyses why ethnic politics emerge in some ethnically diverse societies, but not in others.

An investigation of post-apartheid South Africa, which is notable for a history of politicized ethnicity, a complicated network of ethnic groups and for an expe

In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources vary across localities, districts, and farming regions. These differen