Table of Contents

• Summary Preface by P.S. Reddy
• Rural Local Governance and Traditional Leadership in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean: Policy and Research Implications from Africa to The Americas and Australia
• Donald I. Ray
• Setting the Ghanaian Context of Rural Local Government: Traditional Authority Values
• Christine Owusu-Sarpong
• Social Characteristics of Traditional Leaders and Public Views on their Political Roles
• Charles Crothers
• Ghana: Traditional Leadership and Rural Local Governance
• Donald I. Ray
• Chiefs: Power in a Political Wilderness
• Robert Thornton
• Local Governance in Lesotho: The Central Role of Chiefs
• Tim Quinlan and Malcolm Wallis
• Traditional Authorities, Local Government and Land Rights
• Lungisile Ntsebeza
• "We Rule the Mountains and They Rule the Plains": The West African Basis of Traditional Authority in Jamaica
• Werner Zips
• Traditional Leadership and Rural Local Government in Botswana
• Keshav C. Sharma
• Rural Local Government and Development: A Case Study of Kwazulu-Natal: Quo Vadis?
• P.S. Reddy and B.B. Biyela
• What Role for Traditional Leadership in the "Pluralistic State" in Africa?
• Carl Wright

About the Author

Donald I. Ray is a professor in the department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. P.S. Reddy is a professor in the School of Governance, University of Durban-Westville, Durban, South Africa. He is currently the project director of the Working Group on Local Governance and Development of the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA), headquartered in Brussels.