In this paper, we examine the ways in which the notion of „ethnicity‟ has been operationalized for quantitative research. We argue that there is a conceptual mismatch between modern theories of ethnicity and the current way in which ethnicity is employed statistically, but that this mismatch...

The paradox of efforts over the past twenty years to reinvent democracy in Africa has been that rather than dampening the fires of ethnic conflict, they have often made them more intense and in the past decade have been accompanied by the explosion of violent conflicts of autochthony,...