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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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- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- 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