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dc.contributor.editorQuinlan, Tim
dc.contributor.editorRay, Donald I.
dc.contributor.editorSharma, Keshav
dc.contributor.editorClarke, Tacita
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-18T11:54:16Z
dc.date.available2022-07-18T11:54:16Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifierONIX_20220718_9781552385371_41
dc.identifier.issn17031826
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57464
dc.description.abstractThis collection of essays examines the relatively new, and frequently overlooked, political phenomenon in post-colonial Africa of chieftaincy "re-inventing" itself. The traditional authority of chiefs has been one of Africa's missing voices who are now bringing new resources to the challenges that AIDS, gender, governance, and development pose to the peoples of Africa. d This publication presents new research in Ghana, Botswana, and South Africa, providing the broadest geographic African coverage on the topic of African chieftaincy. The nineteen authors, many of them emerging scholars from Africa, are all members of the Traditional Authority Applied Research Network (TAARN). Their essays give critical insight into the transformation processes of chieftaincy from the end of the colonial/apartheid periods to the present. They also examine the realities of male and female traditional leaders in reinventing their legitimacy and their political offices in the age of great social and political unrest, health issues and governance and development challenges.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAfrica: Missing Voices
dc.titleReinventing African Chieftaincy in the Age of AIDS, Governance, Gender, and Development
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy5c7afbd8-3329-4175-a51e-9949eb959527
oapen.relation.isbn9781552385371
oapen.pages716
oapen.place.publicationCalgary


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