Ancestral institutions and the salience of African ethnicity: Theory and Evidence
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DOI: 10.1017/s1744137423000371
Abstract: Abstract This paper advances a pre-colonial institutional thesis to explain the variation in the salience of ethnicity in African societies. It posits that pre-colonial political centralization facilitated the accumulation of economic and institutional advantages, positioning… read more here.
Keywords: ethnicity; theory evidence; identity; ancestral institutions ... See more keywords