Mediating legitimacy : chieftaincy and democratisation in two African chiefdoms /
This study analyses the effects of democratic transition in two African countries--Cameroon and South Africa--on chiefs and the institution of chieftainship. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the monograph explores the cultural and socio-political conditions that enabled chiefs to reinvent themselves...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Bamenda, Cameroon : [East Lansing, Mich.] :
Langaa RPCIG ; Distributed in N. America by Michigan State University Press,
2009.
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Series: | African Studies Centre research series.
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Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |