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  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Summary
  8. Preface
  9. 1 Rural Local Governance and Traditional Leadership in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean: Policy and Research Implications from Africa to the Americas and Australasia
  10. 2 Setting the Ghanaian Context of Rural Local Government: Traditional Authority Values
  11. 3 Social Characteristics of Traditional Leaders and Public Views on their Political Role
  12. 4 Ghana: Traditional Leadership and Rural Local Governance
  13. 5 Chiefs: Power in a Political Wilderness
  14. 6 Local Governance in Lesotho: The Central Role of Chiefs
  15. 7 Traditional Authorities, Local Government and Land Rights
  16. 8 “We Rule the Mountains and They Rule the Plains”: The West African Basis of Traditional Authority in Jamaica
  17. 9 Traditional Leadership and Rural Local Government in Botswana
  18. 10 Rural Local Government and Development: A Case Study of Kwazulu-Natal: Quo Vadis?
  19. 11 What Role for Traditional Leadership in the “Pluralistic State” in Africa?
  20. Index
  21. Back Cover

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The text reads Political Science/Cultural Studies/Africa. Traditional leadership is a factor that has been long 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. Donald I. Ray is a professor in the department of political science at the University of Calgary. He is also the International Co-ordinator of the Traditional Authority Applied Research Network (TAARN). 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. "A very timely and valuable contribution on chieftancy." Roger Southall, Rhodes University, South Africa www.uofcpress.com. ISBN 1-55238-080-7. 9781552380802

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