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oapen-20.500.12657-574642022-07-19T03:00:47Z Reinventing African Chieftaincy in the Age of AIDS, Governance, Gender, and Development Quinlan, Tim Ray, Donald I. Sharma, Keshav Clarke, Tacita bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government 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. d 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. 2022-07-18T11:54:16Z 2022-07-18T11:54:16Z 2011 book ONIX_20220718_9781552385371_41 17031826 9781552385371 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57464 eng Africa: Missing Voices application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781552385371.pdf University of Calgary Press 5c7afbd8-3329-4175-a51e-9949eb959527 9781552385371 716 Calgary open access
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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. d 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.
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