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Global responsibility - local agenda : the legitimacy of modern self-determination and African traditional authority

Title: Global responsibility - local agenda : the legitimacy of modern self-determination and African traditional authority / Manfred O. Hinz, F. Thomas Gatter (Eds.).
Publication: Münster ; London : Lit Verlag, 2006.

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Description

256 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

African studies ; v. 18

Uniform Title

Afrikanische Studien (Münster, Germany) ; Bd. 18.

Subjects

Note

Papers from a conference organized by the Centre of African and Migrations Studies and the Centre for Applied Social Sciences, and held in 2002.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

In English, with 1 contribution in German.

Contents

Global responsibility as a local agenda / Gunther Hilliges -- The project of "tradition" : constitutionalism in Africa / Manfred O. Hinz -- Legitimacy, legitimacy crises of traditional rule in northern Ghana, and the role of the state / Brigitta Benzing -- The past on the present : Kasikili/Sedudu Island case / Effa Okupa -- The legitimacy of modern self-government : the Namibian case / Gerhard Tötemeyer -- Local self-government : the enlightening case of Germany / Dian Schefold -- Authority and the portrait of the ruler : Africa between tradition and modernity / Helke Kammerer-Grothaus -- Direct democracy, alternative to representative forms of government [Libya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo] / Detlev Quintern -- The divided legitimacy : lessons from empirical research in Namibia / Brian Katjaerua -- "Walking in the middle of the road" [Sekhukhune, South Africa] / Barbara Oomen -- Claims and challenges / Thomas Gatter -- Aboriginal title and the right of internal self-determination under the South African Constitution / Özlem Ülgen -- Autochthonous peoples and their international legal protection / Gerhard Stuby -- The South African constitutional, policy, and statutory framework for traditional leadership and institutions / Nic Olivier -- Environmental education for sustainable development in Namibia / Meike Wulfmeyer -- The African local and the global / Helgard Patemann -- The rule of law and the new African constitutionalism / Manfred O. Hinz.

Call Number

Sc D 06-1934

ISBN

382586782X (pbk.)
9783825867829 (pbk.)

OCLC

68778628

Title

Global responsibility - local agenda : the legitimacy of modern self-determination and African traditional authority / Manfred O. Hinz, F. Thomas Gatter (Eds.).

Imprint

Münster ; London : Lit Verlag, 2006.

Series

African studies ; v. 18

Afrikanische Studien (Münster, Germany) ; Bd. 18.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

In English, with 1 contribution in German.

Added Author

Hinz, Manfred O., 1936-

Gatter, Frank Thomas, 1946-

Universität Bremen. Centre of African and Migration Studies.

Centre for Applied Social Sciences (Windhoek, Namibia)

Research Call Number

Sc D 06-1934

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