11:00 - 12:30
Chieftainship, Legitimacy, and the Colonial Construction of Indirect Rule
Room: Aston Webb – Senate Chamber
Stream: Political Legitimacy and 'Customary' Rule in Local African Contexts
Chair/s:
Hein Vanhee
11:00 - 11:15
We-A35 Political Legitimacy and Local African Contexts 1-P-001
The Commission for the Protection of the Native Population and the complex 'construction' of Belgian indirect rule in 20th century colonial Congo.
Eva Schalbroeck
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
11:15 - 11:30
We-A35 Political Legitimacy and Local African Contexts 1-P-002
Traditional Rulers and Crisis of Legitimacy in the post-colonial Nigeria: The case of the Igede of Central Nigeria
Victor Iyanya
Benue State University Makurdi, Makurdi, Nigeria
11:30 - 11:45
We-A35 Political Legitimacy and Local African Contexts 1-P-003
The Chief and the Church: Catholic Power in Tanganyika, South-Eastern Belgian Congo, 1909-1960
Reuben Alexander Loffman
Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom