Akan Chiefs and Queen Mothers in Contemporary Ghana: Examples of Democracy, or Accountable Authority?

International Journal of African Studies 3 (1):63-83 (2001)
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Abstract

The paper evaluates the claims of Kwame Gyekye and Kwasi Wiredu that the Akan traditional governance structures are just as democratic or even more democratic that Western style representative democracies.

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Gail Presbey
University of Detroit Mercy

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