How do nation-states in the twenty-first century, nation-states increasingly forced to come to terms with the ethnic heterogeneity of their citizens
ProlegomenonHerewith two fragments from the discourses of the recent South African past.… we Blacks (most of us) execrate ethnicity with all our being.Desmond Tutu, 1981 1 For the Archbishop, in short, 'native' cultural identities were little more than an excrescence of colonial racism.Our duty is to identify and define the main currents of [African] tradition and to incorporate [them] in the modern, technically advanced political entities that we are seeking to construct. Penuell Maduna, 1999 2 For the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, the products of