Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Framing the Problem
Africa and Europe: Parallels
Chieftaincy as a Philosophical Problem: Who Ought to Rule?
Modernity and Chieftaincy
Chieftaincy and Liberalism
The Genesis of the Unfinished Business
Colonialism Intervenes: Arrested Development
Frederick D. Lugard and the Reconfiguration of Chieftaincy
The Aftermath
Can a Liberal be a Chief? Can a Chief be a Liberal?
Endnotes