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

by Lars Buur, H. Kyed

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.

254 pages, Hardcover

First published November 27, 2007