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About this book

Preface -- 1. Rural Local Governance and Traditional Leadership in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean: Policy and Research Implications from Africa to the Americans and Australasia -- 2. Setting the Ghanaian Context of Rural Local Government: Traditional Authority Values -- 3. Social Characteristics of Traditional Leaders and Public Views on their Political Role -- 4. Ghana: Traditional Leadership and Rural Local Governance -- 5. Chiefs: Power in a Political Wilderness -- 6. Local Governance in Lesotho: The Central Role of Chiefs -- 7. Traditional Authorities, Local Government and Land Rights -- 8. "We Rule the Mountains and They Rule the Plains": The West African Basis of Traditional Authority in Jamaica -- 9. Traditional Leadership and Rural Local Government in Botswana -- 10. Rural Local Government and Development: A Case Study of Kwazulu-Natal: Quo Vadis? -- 11. What Role for Traditional Leadership in the "Pluralistic State" in Africa?.