Sentence examples for chieftaincy from inspiring English sources

Following the dispute over the graves, the king called into question Mandla Mandela's chieftaincy and then declared him stripped of the title even though it was the king himself who formally appointed him head of Mvezo village.

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.

He may also have been embittered by his failure to win the chieftaincy of the Kidal Tuareg tribal confederacy.

"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.

There are about 18 ethnic groups that exhibit similar cultural features, such as secret societies, chieftaincy, patrilineal descent, and farming methods.

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.

And this brings us to one of Africa's greatest problems.Before European colonists arrived, Africa was divided into several thousand kingdoms and chieftaincies whose systems of government had evolved over hundreds of years.

Futuna has two chieftaincies: Sigave, whose current king is Polikalepo Kolivai, and Tu'a, which was recently without a ruler for four years until Petelo Sea took the throne on January 17 , 2014

After his death, Kerala became a conglomeration of warring chieftaincies, among which the most important were Calicut (now Kozhikode) in the north and Venad in the south.

The major Xhosa chieftaincies conquered in the annexation were the Ngqika and the Ndlambe.

Very few of those people are specialists; typically they hold ritual authority by virtue of age, genealogy, or political office and are primarily responsible for the ritual well-being only of the members of the social groupings that they head; their congregations consist of their joint families, lineages, clans, local village communities, chieftaincies, or the like.