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Carola Lentz
Researcher at University of Mainz
Publications - 85
Citations - 1773
Carola Lentz is an academic researcher from University of Mainz. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Elite. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 80 publications receiving 1688 citations. Previous affiliations of Carola Lentz include Free University of Berlin & Goethe University Frankfurt.
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The Chief, the Mine Captain and the Politician: Legitimating Power in Northern Ghana
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the strategies of acquiring and legitimating power in Ghana, taking the example of three "big men" from the north, a paramount chief, a mine captain and a politician in the making.
'Tribalism' and ethnicity in Africa: a review of four decades of anglophone research
TL;DR: Partant de l'opposition entre les theories essentialistes and constructionnistes of l'ethnicite, the authors fait l'historique des principales recherches anglophones sur l' ethnicite and le tribalisme en Afrique subsaharienne.
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Land and the politics of belonging in West Africa
Richard Kuba,Carola Lentz +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the long-term processes and recent changes in contemporary rural West Africa affecting the conversion of control over land into social and political capital and vice versa.
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Ethnicity and the making of history in northern Ghana
TL;DR: The Lawra Confederacy Native Authority as mentioned in this paper has been recognized as a chieftaincy authority for the first time by the Ghanaian government since the early 1970s, and it is recognized by the National Archives of Ghana.
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Ethnicity in Ghana : the limits of invention
Carola Lentz,Paul Nugent +1 more
TL;DR: Lentz et al. as discussed by the authors discussed the history of ethnicity in Ghana and the 1994 civil war in Northern Ghana, focusing on women and ethnicity among the Anlo-Ewe.