Political Legitimacy, Political Symbols, and National Leadership in West Africa

The Journal of Modern African Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1983, Pages 645-671

  Dumbuya, Ahmed R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIERRA LEONE   (Sierra Leone)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GHANA; GUINEA; NATIONAL LEADERSHIP; SENEGAL; SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 0020924590     PISSN: 0022278X     EISSN: 14697777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X00024253     Document Type: Article

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1. Murray Edelman, The Symbolic Uses of Politics (Urbana, 1967), p. 11.
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3. George L. Mosse, The Nationalization of the Masses: political symbolism and mass movements in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars through the Third Reich (New York, 1975), p. 20.
4. A. A. Afrifa, The Ghana Coup, 24th February 1966 (London, 1966).
5. William J. Foltz, ‘Senegal’, in James S. Coleman and Carl G. Rosberg, Jr. (eds.), Political Parties and National Integration in Tropical Africa (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1964), p. 20.
6. Thomas S. Cox, Civil-Military Relations in Sierra Leone: a case study of African soldiers in politics
7. Mircea Eliade, Cosmos and History: the myth of the eternal return (New York, 1954), P- 23.