Dar es Salaam is exceptional in East Africa for having a record of relatively little ethnic tension, and remaining tranquil and true to its name, the ‘harbour of peace’. This paper explores the interface between ethnic and national identities in Tanzania’s capital city, focusing on its ethnic foundations and their malleability with regard to nationalism, asking how nationalist identities were n...

This article discusses the historical role of Islam in the political evolution of Guinea in the broader context of Muslims’ experience of nation/state building and globalization in Africa. This role is examined on the premise that Islam is one of the major globalizing forces (more in the body of the paper on this idea of Islam as a globalizing force) responsible for the formation of what expert...

This study contributes with minority-centred perspectives to the policy trend of imposing majority language requirements on immigrants. With aim identify and explore (dis)connections value conflicts between policies national minority recognition immigrant integration, it develops applies four ideal types minority-linguistic integration regimes a mapping in 27 European Union (EU) member states. ...