They live in comparatively large villages overseen by local chiefs.
China is littered with wasteful "image projects" built by local chiefs.
His son Eweka is regarded as the first oba, or king, of Benin, though authority would remain for many years with a hereditary order of local chiefs.
Political parties have been banned since 1973, so aspiring members of parliament have to run as independents and be vetted by local chiefs.
In each village, 30 households were systematically sampled from lists obtained from the local chiefs.
The households were selected based on a list of all households in each village, provided by local chiefs.
To stop that and to protect the mamala and the forest's other botanicals Cox had to buy back the rights and strike a deal with local chiefs.
In 987, Maymun, emir of Derbent, asked the Rus' to help him against local chiefs.
Ben Mauk It a Fulbrisht Scholar living in Berlin and a regular online contributor to the New Yorker.
The $1.9 billion deal fell through after pressure from local chiefs.
They make systematic sweeps of communities, talking with different actors – gender, age groups, key informants like police and local chiefs.
