Sovereignty, legitimacy, and power in West African societies : perspectives from legal anthropology
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Sovereignty, legitimacy, and power in West African societies : perspectives from legal anthropology
（Afrikanische Studien, vol.10）
Lit, 1998
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Africa has persistently been given the negative image of the lost continent: political turmoil, economic failures, hunger, disease, irresponsible and irrational warlords, and corrupt regimes. Such a bias calls for a critique. The authors analyze power divisions and struggles over sovereignty and legitimacy in African societies from a historical point of view. Possibilities for peaceful social relations are taken as much into account as internal frictions between state and "traditional authorities."
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