Talk:Native Authority

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Indigenous organizations

A link was created between this article and Indigenous Organizations. However, indigenous organizations are generally those created by indigenous peoples themselves.

Although many of the Nyasaland Native Authorities were based on pre-colonial chiefs, between the foundation of the British Central Africa Protectorate, ratified in 1891, and 1933, the governors of the protectorate neither accept the authority of African chiefs nor involved them in administration. In addition, after 1933, in some areas mission-educated Africans were appointed in place of those with an hereditary claim to be chiefs, and in others, chiefs were appointed where no pre-colonial chiefs had existed.

The colonial government retained the power to appoint or replace chiefs or alter the areas in which they had authority, and it used that authority to replace chiefs that it considered inefficient or opposed to government policies. The legal definition of a Native Authority was any chief or other African, or any council or group appointed to be a Native Authority for a particular area. These circumstances are inconsistent with Native Authorities being Indigenous Organizations. Sscoulsdon (talk) 07:50, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]