Since 1990 the banning of ethnic and other identity-based parties has become the norm in sub-Saharan Africa. This … article focuses on Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda as three East African countries that have opted for different ways of dealing … reasons for the absence of a ban in Kenya. The analysis shows that the laws on particularistic parties have actually been …

of profit and power, new ways of being social, and new visions of the future. Throughout Africa, ethnic corporations have … intellectual property. Building on ethnographic case studies from Kenya, Nepal, Peru, Russia, and many other countries, this …