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AEGIS European Conference on African Studies
11 - 14 July 2007
African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Local authorities or local power? The ambiguity of traditional authorities from the colonial to the post-colonial period in Guinea-Bissau
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54. Guinea-Bissau: there must be a solution - djitu ten ke ten
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| Paper ID | 581 |
| Author(s) |
Carvalho, Clara
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No paper submitted
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| Abstract | This paper explores the some aspects of the ambiguity of power relations during the colonial period and how it marked the post-colonial project of a nation from the perspective of local authorities or “traditional chiefs” in Guinea-Bissau. The colonial encounter conducted to the confrontation of local power projects with the colonial project of political and cultural hegemony. Local chiefs or “régulos” were particular sensitive to this mutual game of domination, integration and exclusion. The role played by traditional chiefs in the late colonial period in Guinea-Bissau (1945-1973) conditioned their actuation in the post-colonial period. This paper focus the contradictions and ambiguities of colonial policy towards local authorities during this period. |
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