Can a Liberal be a Chief? Can a Chief be a Liberal?
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Can a Liberal be a Chief? Can a Chief be a Liberal?

Some Thoughts on an Unfinished Business of Colonialism

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eBook - ePub

Can a Liberal be a Chief? Can a Chief be a Liberal?

Some Thoughts on an Unfinished Business of Colonialism

About this book

An argument against the idea of the indigenous chief as a liberal political figure.

Across Africa, it is not unusual for proponents of liberal democracy and modernization to make room for some aspects of indigenous culture, such as the use of a chief as a political figure. Yet for Olúf??mi Táíwò, no such accommodation should be made. Chiefs, he argues, in this thought-provoking and wide-ranging pamphlet, cannot be liberals—and liberals cannot be chiefs. If we fail to recognize this, we fail to acknowledge the metaphysical underpinnings of modern understandings of freedom and equality, as well as the ways in which African intellectuals can offer a distinctive take on the unfinished business of colonialism.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. Framing the Problem
  9. Africa and Europe: Parallels
  10. Chieftaincy as a Philosophical Problem: Who Ought to Rule?
  11. Modernity and Chieftaincy
  12. Chieftaincy and Liberalism
  13. The Genesis of the Unfinished Business
  14. Colonialism Intervenes: Arrested Development
  15. Frederick D. Lugard and the Reconfiguration of Chieftaincy
  16. The Aftermath
  17. Can a Liberal be a Chief? Can a Chief be a Liberal?
  18. Endnotes