Chiefdoms

They practice a rich and admirable culture known as the “Jawei Culture” which symbolises peace, not only among the people of Jawei Chiefdom but also among the people of the three sister chiefdoms of Jawei, Njaluahun and Malema chiefdoms.

The only units of government that still retained a fair measure of autonomy — but not for long — were the so-called local collectivities, i.e. chiefdoms and sectors (the latter incorporating several chiefdoms).

President Edgar Lungu says it is good that almost all traditional leaders agree that the Constitution Amendment Bill Number 10 of 2019 will help to resolve the succession wrangles in chiefdoms.

The Kaduna State government, yesterday, extended the 24-hour curfew imposed on Thursday to two chiefdoms in Kauru and Zangon Kataf.

The Speaker, Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdulllahi, says that the House has passed the 2019 Local Government amended bill into law to empower the state governor to create fourth-class traditional chiefdoms in the state.

The statement, however, said with the new amendment, the state governor is now empowered to create fourth class traditional chiefdoms so as to give some communities in the state a sense of belonging.

We formed chiefdoms, kingdoms and then larger polities and various ways of distributing power after that.

Their main grievance was that there were people who were allegedly ferried from other chiefdoms to vote under Madlenya Chiefdom.

We are chosen by the Royal Establishments in our respective chiefdoms.

As Māori was a tribal-level society of many shifting chiefdoms, relationships with Europeans were ad hoc and informal.

Elections further Nominations take place at the chiefdoms.

It finally split into smaller chiefdoms.

Large chiefdoms began to dominate considerable areas of the island.

Other scholars see a slow process of increasing social complexity between the 12th and the 8th centuries, based on a network of chiefdoms.

Pre-1200 Bugis society was most likely organised into chiefdoms.

Sierra Leone is further divided into 149 chiefdoms.

Some anthropologists have speculated these chiefdoms would have warred and, in times of peace, exchanged women with each other.

The lowest level is the village or hamlet, then the chiefdom (now politically referred to as a state) and finally alliances of chiefdoms.

The Moritsane culture is historically associated with the Khalagari (Kgalagadi) chiefdoms, the westernmost dialect-group of Sotho (or Sotho-Tswana) speakers, whose prowess was in cattle raising and hunting rather than in farming.

The rise of the Zulu Empire under Shaka forced other chiefdoms and clans to flee across a wide area of southern Africa.