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Traditional authorities in Africa
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ISBN: 1281988332 9786611988333 9048506581 9087280521 9789048506583 9781281988331 9789087280529 9790000000000 Year: 2008 Publisher: [Amsterdam] Leiden University Press

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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.

The creation of tribalism in Southern Africa
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ISBN: 0520062841 0520074203 0585354960 0520911253 9780520062849 Year: 1989 Publisher: London : Berkeley : Currey ; University of California Press,

Le retour des rois : les autorités traditionnelles et l'Etat en Afrique contemporaine
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ISBN: 2845863438 9782845863439 Year: 2003 Publisher: Paris : Karthala,

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