Ethnicity: Emmerson Mnangagwa's power weapon - The Zimbabwe Independent
The Zimbabwe Independent February 12, 2021 THEORISTS specialising in social identity cite three main categories â primordialism, constructivism and instrumentalism ethnic cleavages upon which human nature adopts distinctiveness. Candid bchitemba@yahoo.co.uk Without going into the merits and demerits of the aforesaid philosophies, primordialists believe that ethnic ties are assigned at birth, fixed and passed down genealogically across generations whilst constructivists say ethnicities are a result of social construct and can be altered over time. The instrumentalist schoo...