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Social Science Developing Countries

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

contributions by Donald I. Ray, Gaelle Eizlini, Wilhelmina J. Donkoh, Sherri A. Brown, Kimberley Schoon, Christiane Owusu-Sarpong, Mogopodi H. Lekorwe, Shahid Vawda, Sibongiseni Mkhize, Morgan Nyendu, Robert Thornton, Mpho F. Moloma, Keshav C. Sharma, Kusi Ankra, Mpilo Pearl Sithole, Kereng Daniel Lebogang Kgotleng & Brian Keating

edited by Tim Quinlan, Keshav Sharma & Tacita Clarke

Publisher
University of Calgary Press, IRDC
Initial publish date
Mar 2012
Category
Developing Countries, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552384985
    Publish Date
    Feb 2011
    List Price
    $44.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781552384992
    Publish Date
    Mar 2012
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    $44.95

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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. 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.

With contribtutions by:

Kusi Ankra Sherri A. Brown Wilhelmina J. Donkoh Gaelle Eizlini Brian Keating Kereng Daniel Lebogang Kgotleng Mogopodi H. Lekorwe Sibongiseni Mkhize Mpho F. Moloma Morgan Nyendu Christiane Owusu-Sarpong Donald I. Ray Kimberley Schoon Keshav C. Sharma Mpilo Pearl Sithole Robert Thornton Shahid Vawda

About the authors

Donald Ray teaches comparative politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. He is the International Coordinator of the Traditional Authority Applied Research Network (TAARN). He has published extensively on the topics of African politics, state-chief relations in Africa, the politics and policies of development, and political responses to change.

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Tim Quinlan is the research director of the Health Economics and AIDS Research Division (HEARD) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

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Keshav Sharma is a professor in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at the University of Botswana in South Africa.

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Tacita Clarke works in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary.

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Brian Keating is a keen naturalist, avid outdoorsman, world traveller, intrepid adventurer, and extraordinary spokesperson for the world's wild places and the creatures that inhabit them. Keating is Head of the Calgary Zoo's Conservation Outreach Department, and responsible for national and international conservation projects, such as the Wechiau Hippo Sanctuary in Ghana, West Africa, and the nature-based eco-tour program that he started in 1983.

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