Reinventing African Chieftaincy in the Age of AIDS, Gender, Governance, and Development

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Chiefdoms—GhanaChiefdoms—South Africa
Chiefdoms—Botswana
Tribal government—Ghana
Tribal government—South Africa
Tribal government— Botswana
Ghana—Politics and government
South Africa—Politics and government
Botswana—Politics and government
Ghana—Social conditions
Botswana—Politics and government
Botswana—Social conditions
Ghana—Social conditions
South Africa— Social conditions—1994-
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This 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. Reinventing African Chieftaincy in the Age of AIDS, Gender, Governance, and Development 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.Refereed
YesSeries: Africa, missing voices series (Online) ; 8
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Reinventing African chieftaincy in the age of AIDS, gender, governance, and development [electronic resource] / edited by Donald I. Ray, Tim Quinlan, Keshav Sharma, Tacita Clarke. Series: Africa, missing voices series 8, University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta, 2011.Collections
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