Titlebook: State Recognition and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa; A New Dawn for Tradi Lars Buur (Senior Researcher and a Research Associ Book 2

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2945-7815 al authority in the wave of democratization and liberal-style state-building that has rolled over sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade.978-1-349-36980-5978-0-230-60971-6Series ISSN 2945-7815 Series E-ISSN 2945-7823

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Introduction: Traditional Authority and Democratization in Africae achievement of independence.. This is due in part to colonial systems of governance, which, through a combination of direct and indirect forms of rule, incorporated traditional leaders as an extension of colonial regimes in order to extract human and natural resources and curb organized resistance

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The Ambivalent Role of Chiefs: Rural Decentralization Initiatives in Malawilebert 2002; Ntsebeza 2004; Ribot 2002).. In Malawi, chieftaincy represents an institutionalized form of traditional rule with the cardinal characteristics of prescribed kinship, lineage succession to office, and significant influence, particularly in rural areas. Debate over the role of the chiefs

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Chiefs, Policing, and Vigilantes: “Cleaning Up” the Caprivi Borderland of Namibiaical problems of locating their proponents unambiguously within or outside the realm of the state (Lund 2001; Englebert 2002; Nugent 2002; Chabal and Daloz 1999; Bayart . 1999). This chapter analyzes situations in which state practices intersect with non-state practices in the sense of the state- (a

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Traditional Chieftaincy, Party Politics, and Political Violence in Burkina Fasoence in present-day Burkina Faso.. While the struggle against impunity—that is, against the freedom of punishment for “blood” and economic crimes committed by holders of political power—and the flourishing mass media debate mark important steps in the democratization of Burkinabe public life (Hagber

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From Pastoral to State Politics: Traditional Authorities in Northern Somalia to the past invites invention, redefinition, and reproduction from the contemporary point of view (Kyed and Buur 2006: 21). Nevertheless, when it comes to questions of acceptability and legitimacy, not everything can be manipulated, invented, or imposed (van Dijk and van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal 1999:

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