Chiefs, Power, and Social Change

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Chiefs, Power, and Social Change is written by Olufemi Vaughan and published by Africa World Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1592210945 (ISBN 10) and 9781592210947 (ISBN 13).

Identifying the institution of chiefship as the focal point of critical discourse on continuity and social change in colonial and postcolonial Botswana, this book offers extensive analysis of the values and aspirations of a rapidly changing, twentieth-century country. Underscoring the central role of chiefship structures in Botswana's historical state formation, the book also analyses the transformation of the institution in three major areas of Botswana's history, including imperialism, decolonisation and the nation state project of the postcolonial period.