Political Legitimacy, Political Symbols, and National Leadership in West Africa

1 December 1983

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Modern African Studies

Vol. 21 (4) , 645-671
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00024253

Abstract

This study focuses on the relationship between political symbols and the legitimation of national leadership in Ghana, Guinea, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. We are particularly interested in ways in which their leaders have used myths and symbols in an attempt to foster or enhance the legitimacy of their régimes in the face of severe economic and political crises.

Keywords

AFRICA
POLITICAL SYMBOLS
LEGITIMACY
NATIONAL LEADERSHIP
CRISES
GUINEA
ATTEMPT

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Politics in a "Non-Political" System: The March 30, 1978 Referendum in Ghana
African Studies Review, 1979
Political Leadership in Sierra Leone
Published by University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) ,1978