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The town of Bawku is embroiled in a decades-long struggle between different ethnic groups for control of the local chieftaincy.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2025

Mr. Alorwoyie travels to Ghana several times a year to attend to affairs that concern his chieftaincy, but he also is attempting to pass his library of music on to people who can sustain it.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2017

In his autobiography, Mr. Mandela wrote that his father had been stripped of his chieftaincy by colonial leaders.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2013

Such chieftaincy also provides a neat answer to another perennial aid flaw: What happens when the aid workers leave?

From Time • Apr. 10, 2011

Because of the universal respect the regent enjoyed — from both black and white — and the seemingly untempered power that he wielded, I saw chieftaincy as being the very center around which life revolved.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela