This volume, from an Africa perspective, examines the relationship
between ethnicity and citizenship within the framework of nation-state.
Its objective and scope engage relational aspects of political
integration, awaken public conscience, and motivate civic engagement. It
provides a platform that could be considered prerequisite for political
transformation. Such a framework is indispensable not only for
challenging the politics of exclusion and marginalization, but also for
reconstructing fractured social relationships. The test of its validity
and relevancy is not whether it accounts for particular traditions, but
whether it provides a framework through which we can comprehend the
dynamics of ethnic identities as an avenue for promoting participatory
governance and democratic accountability. An interdisciplinary study of
this kind brings forth practical and theoretical contributions to the
evolving concepts of ethnicity and citizenship.