This publication explores the perceptions, understandings, and experiences of difference between selves and communities in Africa and beyond. It focuses on the nature of difference in its many manifestations – social and communal, local and national – while making the case that being different doesn't necessitate being enemies, antagonists or subjects of contestation. The authors present thoughtful ideas on realizing social harmony through individual and community reflection and understanding.
"Lawyers engaging transformative constitutions in Africa will find the book useful in interrogating these constitutions' implementation which calls for a multi-disciplinary approach to their interpretation and implementation. The various insights of this book necessarily engage the burning issue of the people's sovereign power. Political scientists interrogating the politics of division and the quest for alternative forms of political leadership in Africa will find the book's theoretical and practical reflections useful."
— DR. WILLY MUTUNGA EGH
Former Chief Justice, Kenyan lawyer, intellectual, reform activist, and former Commonwealth Special Envoy to the Maldives