(Source: Springer)
Palgrave Macmillan is publishing
a new book on the constitutional history of Swaziland.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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’état. As Hlengiwe Dlamini shows,
the history of constitution-making in Swaziland is rich, complex, and full of
overlooked insight for historians of Africa.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Hlengiwe Portia Dlamini is
a postdoctoral fellow in the International Studies Group at the University of
the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. She received her PhD from the
University of Pretoria, South Africa, and her research interests include the
governance of public space, community policing, the enfranchisement of women,
and Islamic minorities in Swaziland.
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