Bibliograph

Grassroots governance?, chiefs in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean, edited by Donald I. Ray and P.S. Reddy

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Grassroots governance?, chiefs in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean, edited by Donald I. Ray and P.S. Reddy

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Grassroots governance?

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

50790290

Responsibility statement

edited by Donald I. Ray and P.S. Reddy

Series statement

Africa, missing voices series

Sub title

chiefs in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean

Table Of Contents

Preface / P.S. Reddy -- 1. Rural local governance and traditional leadership in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean: policy and research implications from Africa to the Americas and Australasia / Donald I. Ray -- 2. Setting the Ghanaian context of rural local government: traditional authority values / Christiane Owusu-Sarpong -- 3. Social characteristics of traditional leaders and public views on their political role / Charles Crothers -- 4. Ghana: traditional leadership and rural local governance / Donald I. Ray -- 5. Chiefs: power in a political wilderness / Robert Thornton -- 6. Local governance in Lesotho: the central role of chiefs / Tim Quinlan and Malcolm Wallis -- 7. Traditional authorities, local government and land rights / Lungisile Ntsebeza -- 8. "We rule the mountains and they rule the plains": the West African basis of traditional authority in Jamaica / Werner Zips -- 9. Traditional leadership and rural local government in Botswana / Keshav C. Sharma -- 10. Rural local government and development: a case study of Kwazulu-Natal: Quo Vadis? / P.S. Reddy and B.B. Biyela -- 11. What role for traditional leadership in the "pluralistic state" in Africa? / Carl Wright

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