Can a Liberal Be a Chief? Can a Chief Be a Liberal?: Some Thoughts on an Unfinished Business of Colonialism

by Olufemi Taiwo

An argument against the idea of the indigenous chief as a liberal political figure.

Across Africa, it is not unusual for proponents of liberal democracy and modernization to make room for some aspects of indigenous culture, such as the use of a chief as a political figure. Yet for Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, no such accommodation should be made. Chiefs, he argues, in this thought-provoking and wide-ranging pamphlet,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1734643528
• ISBN13: 9781734643527
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press
• Length: 85 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.5" x 7.0"