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chieftain

the head or leader of a tribe or clan

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42 by Authority on August 23, 2017, and the amended declaration on regulating the selection to the Olubadan of Ibadan Chieftaincies and related matters as published in the Oyo State Gazette No.

BREAKING: Court nullifies installation of 21 kings crowned by Ajimobi

Until the emergence of the first Kanak graduates in the 1960s, the language learnt 'in the run' seems to have been a central foundation of Kanak influence in the context of the administrative chieftaincies and, after 1946, in the political structure of the municipality.

In the long 'run': Kanak Stockmen, the cattle frontier and colonial power relations in New Caledonia, 1870-1988

Like the Ogboni or the monarchy, it is analytically obstructive to cast military chieftaincies as independent actors without an aggregation of the multiple and diverse identities and interests at play.

Power politics among Abeokuta elites in the 19th century

120) Not only do individual chiefs vary immensely in power, wealth, charisma, and responsibility, but customary authorities take many different forms throughout the country, from the tendamba "land chiefs" of the north, to the powerful centralized chieftaincies of the Akan, to the family and clan leaders who dominate the Volta region.

Building on custom: land tenure policy and economic development in Ghana

Hutus, however, were subordinate to both Whites and Tutsis under the same regime, being thought of as merely agricultural workers, and, consequently, they suffered from the Morethan Law that separated Hutu chieftaincies.

Origins of Rwandan Genocide

With regard to Konkomba clans, specifically, Jones argued that it would be futile to attempt to create any institution such as chieftaincies or councils among them because "the Konkomba will not be rushed into the acceptance of anything which has not the sanctions of his forefathers.

The past and present in Ghana's ethnic conflicts: British colonial policy and Konkomba agency, 1930-1951

King Mswati's brother, Prince Bhekimpi Dlamini, and other chiefs have forbidden women to wear trousers and miniskirts in their chieftaincies.

Swaziland's tragedy: no room in heaven for miniskirts

The rumours were triggered by a series of protests against the evictions on 14 October of residents of two chieftaincies who refused to be ruled by the King's brother, Prince Maguga Dlamini.

The prince who would not be king

Norse-Icelandic chieftaincies were not initially localized, but they soon became so.