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chieftaincy

NOUN
  1. the position of chieftain

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  • The national organizer of a Ghanaian youth association is calling on elders and traditional rulers to help resolve a brewing conflict over a chieftaincy dispute. Ghanaian Youth Leader Urges Elders to End Chieftaincy Disputes
  • Intoxicated by the accolades, he changed his gait and began to sway like a peacock with his flamboyant suede chieftaincy regalia contributing to the glamour. July « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
  • The system of chieftaincy follows the progression of paramount chief (the king), senior chiefs, sub-chiefs, headmen and sub-headmen.
  • Thus, the institution of chieftaincy and its role as established by customary law, together with its councils, is important and should be maintained and guaranteed.
  • The most locally well-known case involves Talita Mundlovu, daughter of Kwambate Mundlovu, who from 1934 to 1958 served as regulo of the chieftaincy that still bears his name in the current Posto Administrativo (PA) of Mapulanguene. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
  • But these days, people are buying the chieftaincy institutions with their money, he said. Ghanaian Youth Leader Urges Elders to End Chieftaincy Disputes
  • Such chieftaincy disputes are frequent in the Greater Accra region and in other parts of the country. Ghanaian Youth Leader Urges Elders to End Chieftaincy Disputes
  • Though there were a number older than he, they acknowledged his chieftaincy. Under the Deck Awnings
  • In women's recollections of their youth (circa 1910-40), the horizons of shared place were at the same time fairly limited and infinitely elastic, defined principally by the ganga (subdistrict) or tiko (in this context, chieftaincy) where they resided but also by the landscape they or their peers traversed through visiting and trade and had "seen with [their] eyes. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
  • We have a chieftaincy constitution in our country. Ghanaian Youth Leader Urges Elders to End Chieftaincy Disputes
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