| A Constitutional History of the Kingdom of Eswatini (Swaziland), 1960-1982 2019 Edition Contributor(s): Dlamini, Hlengiwe Portia (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030247767 ISBN-13: 9783030247768 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - General - Law | Legal History - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 320.09 |
| Series: African Histories and Modernities |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.71 lbs) 366 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Swaziland--recently renamed Eswatini--is the only nation-state in Africa with a functioning indigenous political system. Elsewhere on the continent, most departing colonial administrators were succeeded by Western-educated elites. In Swaziland, traditional Swazi leaders managed to establish an absolute monarchy instead, qualified by the author as benevolent and people-centred, a system which they have successfully defended from competing political forces since the 1970s. This book is the first to study the constitutional history of this monarchy. It examines its origins in the colonial era, the financial support it received from white settlers and apartheid South Africa, and the challenges it faced from political parties and the judiciary, before King Sobhuza II finally consolidated power in 1978 with an auto-coup d' tat. As Hlengiwe Dlamini shows, the history of constitution-making in Swaziland is rich, complex, and full of overlooked insight for historians of Africa. |