On a work trip to Kenya nearly three decades ago, Cecelia Gore was bombarded with questions about her African ethnicity. Her tall, statuette frame prompted guesses about whether Gore was Maasai, an ...

While some have hailed the willingness of the South African government to arrest popular former President Jacob Zuma as a victory for constitutional fidelity in Africa, there is a much darker side to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Just as the inhabitants of Scandinavia and the Mediterranean countries must be considered as two extreme poles of the same anthropological reality, so should the Negroes of East and West Africa be ...

Standard theories about elections in Africa suggest that they are little more than ethnic headcounts. Data from an exit poll conducted on Election Day in Ghana's 2008 election challenge this view. The ...

Although work is a struggle for 35-year-old Huey Berhe, who does mostly odd jobs to pay the bills, he feels safer now that he’s living among his own community in Mekele, the capital of Ethiopia’s ...

The Power of Diversity Lecture Series will continue today (Feb. 18) at 3 p.m. Gilbert Doho, associate professor of French and Francophone Studies and founding director of the Ethnic Studies Program in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Who are Africa’s swing voters? This article argues that in settings where ethnicity is politically salient, core and swing are defined by ...

Middle Eastern and North African people in Nevada who are often misclassified as white or undercounted by state service providers will have a choice to self-identify for the first time under a new sub ...

Building a shared South African common identity, often referred to as a ‘civic nationalism’, must involve economic redress, tackling racism, and a rebalance of apartheid-inherited power relations. It ...