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Dealing with Government in South Sudan - Histories of Chiefship, Community and State (Paperback)
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Dealing with Government in South Sudan - Histories of Chiefship, Community and State (Paperback)
Series: Eastern Africa Series
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Essential reading for scholars of Sudan, of Africa and of local
governance, as well as policy-makers and practitioners, this study
explores chiefly authority in South Sudan from its historical
origins and evolution under colonial,postcolonial and military
rule, to its current roles and value in the newly independent
country. The creation of Africa's newest state, South Sudan, in
2011, involved national and international recognition of
"traditional authorities", or chiefs. Chiefship has often been
misunderstood to be a timeless or non-state institution, but this
book argues for the mutual constitution of chiefship and the state
since the mid-nineteenth century, based on research in the vicinity
of three towns. The book also demonstrates that while South
Sudanese towns have previously been analysed as centres of alien
state power, people came to the urban "frontier" to seek the
resources, regulation and justice of the state. Located
conceptually - and sometimes spatially - upon this frontier,
chiefshipbecame central to local relations with the state, and to
state definitions of the local. The book thus addresses broader
debates over the role of traditional authorities and the nature of
urban-rural and state-society relations inAfrica. Cherry Leonardi
is a Senior Lecturer in African History at Durham University, a
former course director of the Rift Valley Institute's Sudan course,
and a member of the council of the British Institute in Eastern
Africa Published in association with the British Institute in
Eastern Africa.
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