2011-02-01Zeitschriftenartikel
Understanding colonial chieftaincy from its final phase
responses to the crisis of an institution in French-ruled West Africa and beyond, 1944-1960
Keese, Alexander
With the transfers of power in still-colonial sub-Saharan Africa, the epoch of ‘traditional chieftaincy’ seemed to be finally over. The chiefs, frequently regarded by historians and social scientists as a product of the ...