Knowing Ethnicity : The Politics of Classification and Pluralism in Kenya - Samantha Balaton-Chrimes Crime Isolde and Warren Wilby are

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The problems of interpretation and meaning persisted

He must determine what he is willing to lose in pursuit of his vision of the future

Knowing Ethnicity : The Politics of Classification and Pluralism in Kenya - Samantha Balaton-Chrimes Crime Isolde and Warren Wilby areThere is a widespread assumption that both ethnicity itself and ethnic conflict, are inevitable. Yet, we know very little about how ethnic identifications function in bureaucratic terms in Africa. The stakes of this problem are rapidly escalating in moves to digital identification and population knowledge systems. Focusing on Kenya, this study provides an urgently needed exploration of where ethnic classifications have come from, and where they might