CONTENTS

Summary

Preface by 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