If you haven’t already seen this Harvard University map of ethnicity in Africa, based on data from a 2001 book edited by anthropologist Marc Leo Felix, it is really worth taking in: Each color ...

Larson used the 1959 map of 835 "ethnic regions" of Africa produced by anthropologist George Murdock. While admitting that Murdock's map is "perhaps naïve", Larson states that it remains an ...

These maps from Harvard's AfricaMap project illustrate just how diverse the African continent really is, including its thousands of languages and ethnic groups, incredible biodiversity and the ...

European powers also carved Africa up into territories and possessions ... A professor who studies race and ethnic conflict responds to this map. Ethnicity, like race, is a social construct ...

Head to Chad in north-central Africa where 8.6 million residents belong to ... A caution: Cultural diversity is a different concept than ethnic diversity. As a result, a map of the world reflecting ...

In Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa, the contributors address why ethnicity represents a political problem, how the problem manifests itself, and which institutional models offer ways of ...

Muslim Hausa and Fulani are the predominant ethnic groups in Nigeria’s northern region. Though the groups originated in different parts of West Africa, religion, intermarriage and adoption of ...

Daren Ray has received funding from thr Social Science Research Council and the United States Department of Education Fulbright program. A new book called Ethnicity, Identity and Conceptualizing ...

Posner's important new book is the best recent work on ethnic politics in Africa and should be read by anyone interested in ethnicity and contemporary Africa. In prose always clear and free of jargon, ...