Sentence examples for the chieftaincy from inspiring English sources
noun
The position or period of rule of a chief.
He may also have been embittered by his failure to win the chieftaincy of the Kidal Tuareg tribal confederacy.
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.
Confident that he will stave off the challenge, Mandla says he accepted the chieftaincy at Nelson Mandela's request.
But now Mandla is fighting a rearguard battle to hold on to the chieftaincy, as rival family members try to oust him while Mr Mandela, 94, is critically ill in hospital.
Traditional social structures can be successfully engaged as a programmatic governing body in this case, the chieftaincy and lineage system.
This paper addresses this gap by examining the chieftaincy-land use planning nexus in the Yendi municipality, Ghana.
During the 16th century the chieftaincies, or Nayaka principalities, of Keladi (and later of Ikkeri and Bednur) were established in the western part of what later became Shimoga district.
Around the turn of the 1820s, the Jere chieftaincy was involved in raiding associated with the slave trade at Delagoa Bay and at Inhambane.
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.
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.
