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Traditional authority is a distinguishing feature in the landscape of contemporary Africa. It remains important in organising the life of the people at the local level despite modern state structures. And since the 1990's, African governments, international institutions and donor organisations have shown a renewed interest in it. As a result, a large number of African countries have enhanced or formalised the position of their chiefs. At the same time, however, this resurgence of traditional authority coincides with the wave of democratisation across sub- Saharan Africa, and many question the desirability and legitimacy of traditional authority in modern forms of governance.
Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960. --- Chiefdoms -- Africa. --- Tribal government -- Africa. --- Chiefdoms --- Tribal government --- Africa --- Politics and government --- Chieftaincies --- Chieftainships --- Political science --- Tribes --- Political anthropology
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Government --- Political systems --- Internal politics --- Africa --- Chiefdoms --- Chefferie (Anthropologie) --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Tribal government --- Chefferies --- Afrique noire --- Politique et gouvernement --- #SBIB:328H41 --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen --- Congrès --- Political science --- Tribes --- Chieftaincies --- Chieftainships --- Political anthropology --- Afrique subsaharienne --- Chiefdoms - Africa - Congresses --- Tribal government - Africa - Congresses
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How are we to explain the resurgence of customary chiefs in contemporary Africa? Rather than disappearing with the tide of modernity, as many expected, indigenous sovereigns are instead a rising force, often wielding substantial power and legitimacy despite major changes in the workings of the global political economy in the post-Cold War era-changes in which they are themselves deeply implicated. This pathbreaking volume, edited by anthropologists John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff, explores the reasons behind the increasingly assertive politics of custom in many corners of Africa. Chiefs come in countless guises-from university professors through cosmopolitan businessmen to subsistence farmers-but, whatever else they do, they are a critical key to understanding the tenacious hold that "traditional" authority enjoys in the late modern world. Together the contributors explore this counterintuitive chapter in Africa's history and, in so doing, place it within the broader world-making processes of the twenty-first century.
Chiefdoms --- Chieftaincies --- Chieftainships --- Africa --- Politics and government --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:328H41 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Political anthropology --- Chefferies --- Afrique --- Politique et gouvernement --- Chiefdoms - Africa --- Africa - Politics and government - 1960 --- -Chefferies --- -Chiefdoms
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The emergence of well-known southern African kingdoms such as the famous kingdoms of the AmaZulu, AmaSwazi, and BaSotho in the early nineteenth century was the culmination of centuries of social and political developments that reflected the consolidation of the political control of ruling descent lines of small-scale chiefdoms across the region. This book traces events and developments among the peoples living in the regions of modern KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, southern Mozambique, and Lesotho from 1400 to 1830, as related in indigenous oral traditions and histories, in order to explain the social and political factors propelling sociopolitical consolidation and the emergence of chiefdoms and kingdoms. Elizabeth A. Eldredge is the author of The Creation of the Zulu Kingdom, 1815-1828: War, Shaka, and the Consolidation of Power (2014), Power in Colonial Africa: Conflict and Discourse in Lesotho, 1870-1960 (2007), and A South African Kingdom: The Pursuit of Security in Nineteenth-Century Lesotho (2002).
Chiefdoms -- Africa, Southern -- History. --- Africa, Southern -- Politics and government. --- Africa, Southern -- Kings and rulers. --- Africa, Southern -- History -- To 1899. --- Chiefdoms --- History. --- Africa, Southern --- History --- Kings and rulers. --- Politics and government. --- Chieftaincies --- Chieftainships --- Political anthropology --- Southern Africa --- Africa. --- AmaSwazi. --- AmaZulu. --- BaSotho. --- Chiefdoms. --- Elizabeth A. Eldredge. --- Kingdoms. --- Oral Traditions. --- Political Control. --- Precolonial. --- Sociopolitical Consolidation. --- Southeastern Africa.
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