In Defence of our Cultural Belongings.

Review of "The Institution of Chieftaincy in Ghana - The Future" by Oseadeeyo Addo Dankwa III, Paramount Chief of Akuapem Traditional Area

Abstract

Background: In our times, the institution of traditional leadership in Africa is under strain and pressure from different quarters. On the one hand, there are those who regard it as an atavism which needs to be dropped: on the other hand, there are others who argue that we abandon the institutions of traditional authority at our cultural peril, that it is too closely intertwined with all that we have as African to be dropped or abandoned. Many other views fall in between the two positions, and the fact that the issue is being currently discussed all over Africa, sometimes with, intense passion, makes the significance of this text very timely.