The phrase "a chieftaincy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the office, rank, or position of a chieftain, often in discussions about governance or leadership in certain cultures.
Example: "The village was known for its strong chieftaincy, which played a crucial role in maintaining order and tradition."
Alternatives: "a chieftain's position" or "a chiefdom".
But if one must, say, attend a wedding, a funeral or take a chieftaincy title, it is necessary to hire prearranged police protection from the moment you land at the airport until the moment you depart.
Mandela's quest narrative begins with the dispossession of his father from a chieftaincy, perhaps for standing up to the British, and the struggle of the young Mandela to find his place in the Thembu royal court.
Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (Massob) lobby group, has been given a new chieftaincy title, conferring on him leadership of the Igbo people, in place of the late Colonel Ojukwu.
The Germans and later colonial powers in Cameroon became wary of the Duala and never again allowed a powerful chieftaincy to take hold among them.
The new ward councils were confronted with the challenge of delivering badly needed services and equitable representation to constituencies still coping with a ruined infrastructure, massive displacement of people, and an entrenched traditional chieftaincy system.
The ancestors of the Baule were a section of the Asante who immigrated to their present location under the leadership of Queen Awura Pokou about ad 1750, following a dispute over the chieftaincy, and assimilated many of the indigenous peoples.
ON A blustery day in 2007, Nelson Mandela (pictured on the left) watched his eldest grandson take up the chieftaincy of Mvezo, a village deep in South Africa's Eastern Cape where Mr Mandela was born and where his father was once chief.Mr Mandela had as a young man fled a traditional life in the Thembu royal house, escaping an arranged marriage for the big city of Johannesburg.
Traditional social structures can be successfully engaged as a programmatic governing body in this case, the chieftaincy and lineage system.
And it does not help that the lowermost part of Broadway was originally laid out as a footpath by the people of the Wickquasgeck chieftaincy, long before Europeans arrived.
The Ngoni were a grouping of people descended from the Jere chieftaincy who migrated northward across the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers during the 1820s and 1830s and, under Zwangendaba, settled to the west of Lake Nyasa.
"The Nigerians will eat everything we have," says a former official at the Ghanaian ministry of chieftaincy and culture.Nollywood's moguls make no attempt to deny their influence over the continent they just regard it as a thoroughly good thing.
