• Corpus ID: 39440331

Traditional governance and African customary law : Comparative observations from a Namibian perspective

@inproceedings{Hinz2008TraditionalGA,
  title={Traditional governance and African customary law : Comparative observations from a Namibian perspective},
  author={Manfred O. Hinz},
  year={2008}
}

• M. Hinz
• Published 2008
• Political Science

The traditional versus the modern, the modern in the traditional, the traditional in the modern: topics high on the agenda of scholars and politicians! Emphasising one’s own (past) culture is widely practiced and part of political discourses at local, national and even international levels. The focus on one’s own culture may serve different purposes. It may be a pretext for covering otherwise unacceptable behaviour or it may be used to legitimise political and societal strategies of identity (re-)construction.