Definitions

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  • verb cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity

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Examples

  • The failure to 'democratise and detribalise power' by mainstream nationalists, as in the case of Kenya since independence, has resulted in politics being about which ethnic group is in control of the state and therefore national resources, and which one is not.

    CONTENTS 2008

  • After carefully assessing the failure by African governments to democratise civil society and detribalise rural power, Mamdani says in the African context, elections are not just about representation, they are also about class and ethnic interests.

    CONTENTS 2008

  • The failure to 'democratise and detribalise power' by mainstream nationalists, as in the case of Kenya since independence, has resulted in politics being about which ethnic group is in control of the state and therefore national resources, and which one is not.

    Class, ethnicity and the construction of a fragmented Kenya 2008

  • After carefully assessing the failure by African governments to democratise civil society and detribalise rural power, Mamdani says in the African context, elections are not just about representation, they are also about class and ethnic interests.

    Class, ethnicity and the construction of a fragmented Kenya 2008

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