Grassroots Governance?

Chiefs in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean

AvP. S. Reddy,Iasia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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Beskrivning

Traditional leadership is a factor that has long been overlooked in evaluations of rural local government in much of contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa. Grassroots Governance, an interdisciplinary and intercontinental collection, addresses this gap in African scholarship and brings new perspectives on the integration, or reconciliation, of traditional leadership with democratic systems of local government. Articles from the fields of political science, law, postcolonial studies, anthropology, cultural studies, and policy and administrative studies establish a baseline for best practice in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean while taking into account the importance of traditional leadership to the culture of local governance.Case studies are drawn from Ghana, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Commonwealth countries in West, East, and Southern Africa, as well as Jamaica.

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Utgivningsdatum:2003-03-30
Mått:153 x 234 x 29 mm
Vikt:620 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Africa: Missing Voices
Antal sidor:322
Förlag:University of Calgary Press
ISBN:9781552380802

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Donald I. Ray is a professor in the department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. P.S. Reddy is a professor in the School of Governance, University of Durban-Westville, Durban, South Africa. He is currently the project director of the Working Group on Local Governance and Development of the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA), headquartered in Brussels. 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. P.S. Reddy is a professor in the School of Governance, University of Durban-Westville, Durban, South Africa. He is currently the project director of the Working Group on Local Governance and Development of the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA), headquartered in Brussels.

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Summary Preface by P.S. Reddy Rural Local Governance and Traditional Leadership in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean: Policy and Research Implications from Africa to The Americas and AustraliaDonald I. Ray Setting the Ghanaian Context of Rural Local Government: Traditional Authority Values Christine Owusu-Sarpong Social Characteristics of Traditional Leaders and Public Views on their Political Roles Charles Crothers Ghana: Traditional Leadership and Rural Local Governance Donald I. Ray Chiefs: Power in a Political Wilderness Robert Thornton Local Governance in Lesotho: The Central Role of Chiefs Tim Quinlan and Malcolm Wallis Traditional Authorities, Local Government and Land Rights Lungisile Ntsebeza "We Rule the Mountains and They Rule the Plains": The West African Basis of Traditional Authority in Jamaica Werner Zips Traditional Leadership and Rural Local Government in Botswana Keshav C. Sharma Rural Local Government and Development: A Case Study of Kwazulu-Natal: Quo Vadis? P.S. Reddy and B.B. Biyela What Role for Traditional Leadership in the "Pluralistic State" in Africa? Carl Wright