Mediating legitimacy: Chieftaincy and democratisation in two African chiefdoms

Mediating Legitimacy: Chieftaincy and Democratisation in Two African Chiefdoms

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-124

  Fokwang, Jude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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