Mediating legitimacy : chieftaincy and democratisation in two African chiefdoms /

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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Main Author: Fokwang, Jude Thaddeus Dingbobga
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bamenda, Cameroon : [East Lansing, Mich.] : Langaa RPCIG ; Distributed in N. America by Michigan State University Press, 2009.
Series:African Studies Centre research series.
Subjects:
Chiefdoms > Cameroon > History.
Chiefdoms > South Africa > History.
Tribal government > Cameroon.
Tribal government > South Africa.
Democracy > Cameroon.
Democracy > South Africa.
Political customs and rites > Cameroon.
Political customs and rites > South Africa.
Democracy.
Cameroon > Politics and government.
South Africa > Politics and government.
Cameroon > Social conditions.
South Africa > Social conditions.
History
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