Can a Liberal be a Chief? Can a Chief be a Liber – Some Thoughts on an Unfinished Business of Colonialism

by Olufemi Taiwo

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Format Paperback / Softback

ISBN-10 1734643528

ISBN-13 9781734643527

Publisher Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC

Imprint Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 5th, 2021

Print length 86 Pages

Weight 104 grams

Dimensions 11.50 x 17.90 x 0.90 cms

Product Classification: National liberation & independence, post-colonialism Political structure & processes

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An argument against the idea of the indigenous chief as a liberal political figure. Across Africa, it is not unusual for proponents of liberal democracy and modernization to make room for some aspects of indigenous culture, such as the use of a chief as a political figure. Yet for Olu´f?´mi Ta´i´wo`, no such accommodation should be made. Chiefs, he argues, in this thought-provoking and wide-ranging pamphlet, cannot be liberals—and liberals cannot be chiefs. If we fail to recognize this, we fail to acknowledge the metaphysical underpinnings of modern understandings of freedom and equality, as well as the ways in which African intellectuals can offer a distinctive take on the unfinished business of colonialism.

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