Local Aspirants and Politicised Chieftaincy Disputes: Evidence from Northern Ghana
Why do politicians intervene in some chieftaincy succession disputes but not others? The key actors and their motivations in these processes remain understudied. In this article I leverage a comparative analysis of two similar chieftaincy disputes in Ghana's Upper West Region, and develop induc...
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| Main Author: | Xiran Chen |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2025-04-01
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| Series: | Africa Spectrum |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/00020397241271303 |
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