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The conclusion contributes to a wider debate on the future of statehood and state formation in Africa on the basis of my studies. The example of the Awlad ‘Ali shows that heterarchical configurations can produce a stable regional political order that reaches across national borders. In the case of the borderland, this stability has been based on a shared sovereignty between local politicians of the Awlad ‘Ali and the Egyptian and Libyan regimes. Within this shared sovereignty the politicians of the Awlad ‘Ali are self-confident producers of order, and not the administrative puppets of states and regimes.
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I follow Mario Krämer’s categorization of basic legitimacies presented in his article on the legitimacy of chieftaincy in relation to the African National Congress and the state in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa). See Mario Krämer, “Neither Despotic nor Civil: the Legitimacy of Chieftaincy in Relationship with the ANC and the State in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa),” The Journal of Modern African Studies 54, no. 1 (March 2016): 136ff.
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Hüsken, T. (2019). Conclusion. In: Tribal Politics in the Borderland of Egypt and Libya. Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92342-0_7
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