caa a22 4500 388036435 CHVBK 20180307125006.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199801 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1161147 doi S0001972000046994 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1161147 Lentz Carola The chief, the mine captain and the politician: legitimating power in northern Ghana [Elektronische Daten] [Carola Lentz] This article explores 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. After offering some observations on the recent public debate on the (im)morality of power and ‘bigness', it outlines the biographies of these three ‘big men' and analyses how they skilfully combine different registers of power and legitimacy. It then analyses the strategies of legitimation and grounds of moral judgement which depend, at least to a certain degree, on the particular relationship of the ‘judge' with the ‘big man' in question. The article concludes by discussing the common ‘grammar' that seems to regulate the debates on ‘bigness', morality and interest. Copyright © International African Institute 1998 Africa Cambridge University Press 68/1(1998-01), 46-67 0001-9720 68:1<46 1998 68 AFR https://doi.org/10.2307/1161147 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1161147 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lentz Carola NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Africa Cambridge University Press 68/1(1998-01), 46-67 0001-9720 68:1<46 1998 68 AFR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 077184130 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge