Download or read book Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa written by Michael G. Schatzberg and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative work, Michael G. Schatzberg reads metaphors found in the popular press as indicators of the way Africans come to understand their political universe. Examining daily newspapers, popular literature, and political and church documents, he finds that widespread and deeply ingrained views of government and its relationship to its citizenry may be understood as a projection of the metaphor of an idealized extended family onto the formal political sphere.