State Recognition and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa: A New Dawn for Traditional Authorities?

By Helene Maria Kyed, Lars Buur, H. Kyed

Book Overview

Being critical and empirically grounded, the book explores the complex, often counter-balancing consequences of the involvement of traditional authority in the wave of democratization and liberal-style state-building that has rolled over sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230600336
• ISBN13: 9780230600331
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"