African chieftaincy in a new socio-political landscape
By: edited by E. Adriaan B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal and Rijk van Dijk.
Contributors: Rouveroy van Nieuwaal, Emile Adriaan Benvenuto van, 1939-; Dijk, Rijk van, 1959-; Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden. Afrika-Studiecentrum.
Publisher: Lit Verlag; Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Münster; Piscataway, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Chiefdoms -- Africa.; Tribal government -- Africa.; Africa -- Politics and government.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A publication of the African Studies Centre (Leiden, The Netherlands)"--P. facing t.p.
"... organisation of a study-day on chieftaincy in Africa, organized by the Africa[n] Studies Centre and held in Leiden in March 1996, which has formed the intellectual basis of this volume"--Acknowledgement.
Table of contents: title: The domestication of chieftaincy in Africa : from the imposed to the imagined / Rijk van Dijk & E. Adriaan B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; title: Chieftaincy in Africa : three facets of a hybrid role / E. Adriaan B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal; title: The elusive chief : authority and leadership in Surma society (Ethiopia) / Jan Abbink; title: Modern local administration and traditional authority in Zaire : duality or unity? An inquiry in the Kivu / Dirk Beke; title: Nkoya royal chiefs and the Kazanga Cultural Association in Western Central Zambia today : resilience, decline or folklorization? / Wim van Binsbergen; title: Traditional chiefs and modern land tenure law in Niger / Christian Lund & Gerti Hesseling; title: One chief, one vote : the revival of traditional authorities in post-apartheid South Africa / Ineke van Kessel & Barbara Oomen; title: The Anglophone problem and chieftaincy in Anglophone Cameroon / Piet Konings; title: Obscured by colonial stories : an alternative historical outline of Akan-related chieftaincy in Jamaican Maroon societies / Werner Zips.