Review of African Political Economy Vol. 48, No. 168, June 2021 Battle for legitimacy: revisiting autoch... This study examines the intersection of autochthony and (re)invented claims of authority in ...

The idea of balkanisation is informed by discourses of ‘autochthony’ or indigeneity. These discourses revolve around the claim to be the ‘first’ or ‘original’ inhabitants of a certain ...

As land pressures have increased over time, these movements have sparked disputes over who has the right to the land. In countries such as Cameroon and Côte d’Ivoire, groups have appealed to the idea ...

In doing so, they were all motivated by the same goal: that of ensuring constitutional ‘autochthony.’ This proposition found doctrinal support in the influential theory propounded by the legal ...