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THE STATE AND ‘TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES’ IN ANGOLA: MAPPING ISSUESArmando Marques GuedesMany contemporary African States have been diagnosed as sufferi Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, ping a crisis of legitimacy* 1. Such understanding is not unconnected to the often turbulent processes of State-building in which they are engaged. Much about the contemporary crises is rooted in the notorious uneasiness which these only recently reconfigured and often fragile States commonly show wh Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, pen they try to yet again adapt - and to do so once more at an unhealthily high speed - now to a world rapidly engaged in the changes accompanying theArmando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, p
processes of transformation we call globalization. But there are other, more historical, reasons, for a debit in legitimacy which we can easily detectTHE STATE AND ‘TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES’ IN ANGOLA: MAPPING ISSUESArmando Marques GuedesMany contemporary African States have been diagnosed as sufferi Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, ple economic tours de force of the generation of African leaders who succeeded the charismatic Founding Founders of the immediate post-colonial period.Further reasons are also well worth underlining. Many of them are decipherable on a purely synchronic plane. It seems clear that many of the current A Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, pfrican legitimacy crises that we can easily detect should also be linked to the presence of “hard” juridical and jurisdictional pluralisms, thick multArmando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, p
iplicities which tend to overlap with sociological, or institutional, ones, and which make governance a hazardous business indeed, particularly when tTHE STATE AND ‘TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES’ IN ANGOLA: MAPPING ISSUESArmando Marques GuedesMany contemporary African States have been diagnosed as sufferi Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, pd during both my presentation of the ideas here put forward by scores of those who attended our seminar co-organized with the van Vollenhoven Institute (a prestigious section of the Leiden Law School) at the notable African Studies Centre, and the various readings my text (which I circulated) later Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, preceived. Apart from the rich discussion 1 held with the other five participants in the Leiden meeting,1 want to thank, in particular, Stephen Ellis,Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, p
Jan Michiel Otto and Albert Fan® for their wonderful inputs, Outside the context of the seminar, this paper was carefully read by Rui Pinto Duarte. DaTHE STATE AND ‘TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES’ IN ANGOLA: MAPPING ISSUESArmando Marques GuedesMany contemporary African States have been diagnosed as sufferi Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, psponsibility for which remains, of course, entirely my own.1True, intermingled manifold pluralisms can be found elsewhere, and it therefore would be unwarranted to see this as a specifically African issue. But in Africa they quite definitely find expression in multiple domains, they do have an insti Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, ptutional dimension, and rather often any formats of normative harmonization appear to be all but impossible. In a wide-lens comparative birds’ eye vieArmando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, p
w, pluralism, in particular in sub-Saharan Africa, is not only quantitatively, but in a sense also qualitatively, more intense than almost anywhere elTHE STATE AND ‘TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES’ IN ANGOLA: MAPPING ISSUESArmando Marques GuedesMany contemporary African States have been diagnosed as sufferi Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, powever, this seems fairly improbable, if only by mere induction: quite a few' of the studies carried out in the last two decades - if not, indeed, most them - alert US to the presence of an endless number of obstacles which hinder attempts to achieve any kind of compatibility (and thus much less any Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, p level of effective integration) between State and customary7 law' in contemporary African political communities. The lightest of glances at a centuryArmando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, p
of different modalities of colonial experiments and practices tends to confirm the impression that if there is a solution somewhere, it actually has THE STATE AND ‘TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES’ IN ANGOLA: MAPPING ISSUESArmando Marques GuedesMany contemporary African States have been diagnosed as sufferi Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, p for more robust doubts based on matters of simple congruence.Angola is the example that I will touch upon in the present paper, but many others could be found in which I believe this to be the case. A higher level of image-resolution, to spin a metaphor, brings out clearly core reasons for such a c Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, ponviction: it is certainly by no means difficult to glimpse the many advances and retreats on the operation of the systemic grids W'hich over the yearArmando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, p
s have exerted strong pressures on the arduous and not very successful processes of recognition of local sources of law in Africa. One of the most icoTHE STATE AND ‘TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES’ IN ANGOLA: MAPPING ISSUESArmando Marques GuedesMany contemporary African States have been diagnosed as sufferi Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, pAfrican States with the so-called “traditional authorities”. As a matter of• For a much more developed discussion of these points and associated doubts about the very possibility of formulating generalizations about “Africa”, see my Armando Marques Guedes (2004) monograph, particularly its first sec Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, ption.2fact, the scope formally given to “traditional authorities” seems to me to be one of the most significant and interesting fluctuations of all thArmando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, p
ose we can analyse. And this not only because of the plethora of juridical and political implications such movements generate, but also since such forTHE STATE AND ‘TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES’ IN ANGOLA: MAPPING ISSUESArmando Marques GuedesMany contemporary African States have been diagnosed as sufferi Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, p the intricacies of legal and institutional pluralism in Africa. They also delineate one of the arenas in which formal and informal external pressures (both from the international State system and form the donor and NGO communities) make themselves more directly felt.More than most, if not all, Afri Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, pcan countries, Angola was deeply scarred by the Cold War and the associated civil throes it engendered. It is also thickly plural, in all senses of thArmando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, p
e term, and this pluralism has been very affected by its trajectory in the last hundred and fifty years or so. As we shall see, in cases like the onesTHE STATE AND ‘TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES’ IN ANGOLA: MAPPING ISSUESArmando Marques GuedesMany contemporary African States have been diagnosed as sufferi Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, pelevance when trying to lay out some of the main issues which relate to what Jeffrey Herbst famously characterised as “the complicated dance between States and chiefs”3. My intention is by no means to exhaust the matter; I want merely to throw some light into what I consider to be insufficiently lit Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, p corners. Doing so will then allow me - or so I hope - to recast issues in a wider framework and to equate eventual solutions. Even if normative finalArmando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, p
ities are dropped, such a strategy allows for obvious gain. At the very least, the cartographic effort will make it possible for us to draw limits to THE STATE AND ‘TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES’ IN ANGOLA: MAPPING ISSUESArmando Marques GuedesMany contemporary African States have been diagnosed as sufferi Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, po retain a posture of what I consider to be a healthy equidistance in relation to the various choices faced by Angolan3Jeffrey Herbst (2000: 174). A choreography well worth looking into. As Herbst himself wrote one page before coming up with that wonderful image, "one of the most contentious issues Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, pin the politics of the continent has been the relationship between central authorities and local leaders”. The bibliography on these matters is immensArmando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, p
e.3leaders, by never really going much beyond a delineation of what we may call the general topography of issues4 5.A rapid draft. In political and juTHE STATE AND ‘TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES’ IN ANGOLA: MAPPING ISSUESArmando Marques GuedesMany contemporary African States have been diagnosed as sufferi Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, p. “Autochthonous” groups exhibit, not only marked ethno-linguistic differences, but also very diverse levels of political integration. In the Northern enclave of Cabinda there are numerous matrilineal “Kingdoms” with rather steep social hierarchies. This, in any case, tends to be the pattern of most Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, p Northern Angola, even as, in its North-Eastern Provinces, mixed “native” Lunda and Tschokwe who came in from the East patent quite different socio-poArmando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, p
litical patterns. In the North-West live Bakongo groups who were for many centuries associated within the “Kongo Kingdom”. All these groups traditionaTHE STATE AND ‘TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES’ IN ANGOLA: MAPPING ISSUESArmando Marques GuedesMany contemporary African States have been diagnosed as sufferi Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, p, with some subgroups devoted to a mixed fishing economy.The Central band of the huge Angolan territory, mostly highlands called the Planalto Central, is inhabited by the Mbundu farmers, who locally tend to be organized into clans and lineages in a “classical” central African mode. Their Southern fr Armando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, pinges overlap with mainly pastoral semi-nomadic Ovimbundu speakers, divided into numerous entities with very fluid boundaries or limits, both sociallyArmando marques guedes, the state and traditional authorities in angola mapping issues, article in (eds ) a marques guedes and maria josé lopes, the state and traditional authorities in angola and mozambique, p
and territorially. Southernmost Angola has been traditionally inhabited by non-Bantu Hottentots, some of them pastoralists and a few Bushmen subsistiGọi ngay
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