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Reinventing African Chieftaincy in the Age of AIDS, Gender, Governance, and Development
Donald I (Ed) Ray
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Paperback. The traditional authority of chiefs has been one of Africa's missing voices who bring various resources to the challenges that AIDS, gender, governance, and development post to the people of Africa. This title presents research in Ghana, Botswana, and South Africa, providing the geographic African coverage on the topic of African chieftaincy. Editor(s): Ray, Donald I.; Sharma, Keshav; Quinlan, Tim; Clarke, Tacita. Num Pages: 716 pages, 30 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1H; JFS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 229 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1032.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Calgary Press Canada
Number of pages
716
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Calgary, Canada
ISBN
9781552384985
SKU
V9781552384985
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About Donald I (Ed) Ray
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. Tim Quinlan is the research director ... Read more
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