Origins of the use of Paramount Chief titles in Africa.

Brief History and Insight on the Use of Paramount Chief Titles in Nigeria and Africa.

ICMS, Inc Educational Series
By Tom Okure, Ph.D
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A paramount chief in the African context is used to describe a very powerful chief of the highest order. In Nigeria as in many parts of West Africa, the British Colonial Governors and their administrators created Chieftaincy systems which transformed local societies they governed by empowering a set of Paramount Chiefs as the sole authority of local government in the various Protectorates that they British controlled.

Chief Mutondo (of Zambia) who 

was declared paramount chief of Nkoyas

A paramount chief unlike a local chief has power which extends over an entire governing region. In British Colonial times, the term was used to designate the highest level political leader in a colonial regional or local polity or country administered politically with a chief based system. Such a ruler had great authority which transcended multiple chiefdoms or the rulers of exceptionally powerful chiefdoms that have subordinated others. 

The title of Paramount Chief was a convenient formal title established and used by the British colonial administrators during the 19th and 20th-century in Africa, India and Asian colonies to describe very powerful local rulers equivalent to "kings" in Europe. The term was coined and used because of necessity as a substitute for calling local tribal leaders "King." Calling a supreme local leader King was prohibited because only the "British Monarch" was entitled to be called King. Since the title of chief was frequently used to describe local rulers and by British district and town administrators, it became necessary to add "Paramount Ruler" title to a very powerful regional Chief in order to differentiate such a ruling tribal monarch from a local aristocracy (chief).

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In Eritrea, Men Must Marry Two Women Or Go To Jail

In Eritrea, Men Must Marry Two Women Or Go To Jail

ICMS,Inc Reports
By Tom Okure, Ph.D
Date: January 27,2016

After years of war, Eritrea has been left very short of eligible men to marry its overpopulated female population requiring the Government of Eritrea to mandate men marry at least two wives or face imprisonment.

Government of Eritrea Polygamy Law:

Eritrea Polygamy Law

“Based on the law of God in polygamy, and given the circumstances in which the country is experiencing in terms of men shortage, the Eritrean department of Religious Affairs has decided on the following:

"First that every man shall marry at least two women and the man who refuses to do so shall be subjected to life imprisonment with hard labour. “The woman who tries to prevent her husband from marrying another wife shall be punished to life imprisonment”





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The Effects Of Climate Change Are Being Felt All Over The Planet, But Not Equally

"The effects of climate change are being felt all over the planet, but not equally"

By Kofi Annan
Source: africaprogresspanel.org

"The effects of climate change are being felt all over the planet, but not equally" - Kofi Annan

Posted by Africa Progress Panel on Friday, June 5, 2015

Africa must set up own ICC to try Europeans, says Mugabe

Africa must set up own ICC to try Europeans, says Mugabe

President Robert Mugabe

Date: June 19, 2015

Attribution and Source: africlandpost

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who is also the African Union (AU) chair, says Africa must establish its own International Criminal Court (ICC) which would be mandated to prosecute Western leaders who have committed crimes on the continent.

According to the state-owned Chronicle newspaper, Mugabe said it was high time Africa set up a criminal court which would seek justice for “serious” war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the West, particularity during the colonial era.

“They committed crimes, colonial crimes galore – the slaughter of our people and all that imprisonment… I have a case, why was I imprisoned for 11 years? We forgave them, but perhaps we’ve not done ourselves justice… You set up the ICC, we set our ICC to try Europeans, to try Mr [George] Bush and Mr [Tony] Blair,” Mugabe was quoted as saying.

Mugabe said the International Criminal Court was a court for Western countries, dispensing Western injustice on Africans.

Mass withdrawal

Mugabe said this while addressing journalists at the Harare international airport where he was seeing off his Malian counterpart Ibrahim Boubacar Keita after his three-day state visit to the southern African country.

Keita concurred, adding it was “up to Africans, not Europeans or Americans to judge their leaders”.

Mugabe’s remarks came a few days after Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir evaded an ICC arrest order by leaving early from an African Union summit that was held in Johannesburg.

At the summit, Mugabe wanted a mass withdrawal of African states from the ICC.

The veteran leader harshly criticised the ICC after Al-Bashir dodged his arrest, saying theinternational court was not wanted in Africa.

“This is not the headquarters of the ICC, we do not want it in this region at all,” Mugabe said.

Mugabe also took a swipe at the “foreign” funded non-governmental organisations (NGOs), whom he said were angling for Al-Bashir’s arrest.

Link to Article: Africa must set up own ICC to try Europeans, says Mugabe

COMMENTARY: WAKE UP NIGERIA

COMMENTARY: WAKE UP NIGERIA
By Tom Okure, PH.D

 I just love this lady Adeola Fayehun with her Pidgin English satire of Nigerian politicians and ridicule of 9JA economic mismanagement by our so-called political and administrative elites who despite our huge financial resources compared to other African Nations are still unable to deliver the dividends of democracy to the ordinary Nigerian masses. Watch this Video and ask yourself whether the resources of Nigeria are being properly managed? At the end of the video, listen to how Ajasco (Doyin Okupe) makes a complete fool of himself justifying why Nigeria is not America and cannot afford to provide it’s citizenry with a modern light train system.

Video Summary

Look at what other “African Countries” are doing in moving their economies forward with the limited resources at their disposal compared to Africa’s biggest economy ( Nigeria…The so-called Giant of Africa). Compare for yourself Nigeria’s $12 billion dollar, wasted on primitive locomotive trains compared to Ethiopia’s modern looking light rail trains which cost a fraction of Nigeria's expenditure at $475 million … and also watch what the Republic of Congo is achieving with locally grown traffic technology with its Kinshasa’s Robot Traffic Cops keeping tabs on traffic violators and issuing tickets.

All comments are welcome both positive and negative…let’s keep the conversation going and let our politicians and leaders know that they better wake up and serve the people. That is why they are called CIVIL SERVANTS in civilized societies.

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Dr. Okure is a writer, author, business/management consultant, economic development and public policy advisor, commentator and change advocate. Dr. Okure is the CEO of ICMS,Inc a New York State based management/business consulting firm and Global Master Servicing Agent (MSA) which provides referral, advisory, training, diagnostic and assessment and speaker services

First Lady, Michelle Obama's speech of encouragement and empowerment to “The Mandela Young African Leaders”

ICMS, Inc Listen and Learn Series… First Lady of the United States of America, Michelle Obama's speech of encouragement and empowerment to “The Mandela Young African Leaders”

In this inspiring speech to “The Mandela Young African Leaders” the first lady talks about the need to invest in our youth especially in our young daughters. In the speech, the first lady attributes who she is today and her own achievement in life to the support and investments that her family put in her including in her education without regard to her gender as a female daughter. The speech focuses on the need for gender equality in Africa.

So What Exactly Is Gender Equality?

Gender equality is a term widely used to refer to strides that a society takes towards providing women and men the same rights and opportunities across all sectors of society.  It involves the active effort by policy makers to include the participation of women in all aspects of economic activity and decision-making in society. When fully and properly embedded in government policy, it strives at equally valuing and favoring the different behaviors, aspirations and needs of women and men in society ~ Tom Okure, PH.D

Rwanda’s Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village $23.7 Million Solar Energy Project

Rwanda Lunches a $23.7 Million Solar Energy Project in Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village

Photo Credit:  Clean Technica.

Rwanda’s Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village is the site of a just completed and officially lunched $23.7 million solar energy project.

The project was formally brought online on February 5th at a ceremony officiated by the country’s infrastructure Minister Hon. James Musoni. Also in attendance among other dignitaries, was the US Government’s Overseas Private Investment Corporation Chief of Staff John Morton....Read more Rwanda Launches East Africa's First Utility Large Scale Solar Energy Project/