Africa and Ethnic Politics

Ethnic Politics as Integration

mythical categories. Thus, Alfredo Bonanno discusses the rise of political Islam as a kind ofmapping of the situated categories of oppressor and oppressed onto the ethno-religious categories of

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Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption

Does political competition along ethnic lines worsen politician quality? We show that, in a world with incomplete policy commitment, a greater tendency to vote along ethnic lines reduces politician quality even when it does not affect the availability of good candidates and there are no systematic differences in candidate quality across parties. Specifically, ethnic party competition lowers the...

Politics and Consumer Prices in Africa

The motivations of the Arab Spring that have marked the history of humanity over the last few months have left political economists, researchers, governments and international policymakers pondering over how the quality of political institutions affect consumer welfare in terms of commodity prices. This paper investigates the effects of political establishments on consumer prices in the African...

Politics and Photography in Apartheid South Africa

Resistance or struggle photography is a term describing the photographic documentation of conflict between oppressed and oppressor from the perspective of the subjugated. An example of this genre is explored in the context of apartheid South Africa during the 1980s through the work of a collective called Afrapix. This group’s images of the repression of Black and Coloured populations by the apa...