Cover of Reinventing African Chieftaincy in the Age of AIDS, Gender, Governance, and Development, published by University of Calgary Press

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

by Edited by Donald I. Ray, Tim Quinlan, Keshav Sharma, Tacita Clarke

University of Calgary Press

2011

Non-Fiction: Cultural Studies, Essays, Health, Politics

CDN: $44.95

9781552384985

Discover critical insights into the ongoing transformation and reinvention of the traditional authority of chieftaincy in post-colonial Africa in a groundbreaking collection from members of the Traditional Authority Applied Research Network.

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).

This collection provides 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.

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