LEADER 03212nam 2200613 450 001 9910797778703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9956-762-79-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000499088 035 $a(EBL)4397447 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001583691 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16263091 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001583691 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14864238 035 $a(PQKB)10337290 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4397447 035 $a(OCoLC)929790805 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse50830 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4397447 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11248461 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL846156 035 $a(OCoLC)957435916 035 $a(PPN)198683456 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000499088 100 $a20160905h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aModernising traditions and traditionalising modernity in Africa $echieftaincy and democracy in Cameroon and Botswana /$fFrancis B. Nyamnjoh 210 1$aBamenda, Cameroon :$cLangaa Research & Publishing CIG,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (84 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a9956-762-07-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a1. Chieftaincy studies in Africa : an overview -- 2. Chieftaincy and the game of legitimacy in Cameroon -- 3. Chieftaincy and the negotiation of Botswana's democracy -- 4. Conclusion. 330 $aChieftaincy in Africa has displayed remarkable dynamics and adaptability to new socio-economic and political developments, without becoming totally transformed in the process. Almost everywhere on the continent, chiefdoms and chiefs have become active agents in the quest for ethnic, cultural symbols as a way of maximising opportunities at the centre of bureaucratic and state power, and at the home village where control over land and labour often require both financial and symbolic capital. Chieftaincy remains central to ongoing efforts at developing democracy and accountability in line with the expectations of Africans as individual 'citizens' and also as 'subjects' of various cultural communities. This book uses Cameroon and Botswana as case studies, to argue that the rigidity and prescriptiveness of modernist partial theories have left a major gap in scholarship on chiefs and chieftaincy in Africa. It stresses that studies of domesticated agency in Africa are sorely needed to capture the creative ongoing processes and to avoid overemphasising structures and essentialist perceptions on chieftaincy and the cultural communities that claim and are claimed by it. 606 $aDemocracy$zBotswana 606 $aDemocracy$zCameroon 606 $aLocal government$zBotswana 615 0$aDemocracy 615 0$aDemocracy 615 0$aLocal government 676 $a320.9688109049 700 $aNyamnjoh$b Francis B.$f1961-$0858938 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797778703321 996 $aModernising traditions and traditionalising modernity in Africa$93710656 997 $aUNINA