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A Constitutional History of the Kingdom of Eswatini (Swaziland), 1960-1982 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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A Constitutional History of the Kingdom of Eswatini (Swaziland), 1960-1982 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: African Histories and Modernities
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Swaziland-recently renamed Eswatini-is the only nation-state in
Africa with a functioning indigenous political system. Elsewhere on
the continent, most departing colonial administrators were
succeeded by Western-educated elites. In Swaziland, traditional
Swazi leaders managed to establish an absolute monarchy instead,
qualified by the author as benevolent and people-centred, a system
which they have successfully defended from competing political
forces since the 1970s. This book is the first to study the
constitutional history of this monarchy. It examines its origins in
the colonial era, the financial support it received from white
settlers and apartheid South Africa, and the challenges it faced
from political parties and the judiciary, before King Sobhuza II
finally consolidated power in 1978 with an auto-coup d'etat. As
Hlengiwe Dlamini shows, the history of constitution-making in
Swaziland is rich, complex, and full of overlooked insight for
historians of Africa.
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