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| Title: | State formation in Eastern Africa |
| Editor: | Salim, Ahmed Idha |
| Year: | 1984 |
| Pages: | 266 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Nairobi |
| Publisher: | Heinemann Educational Books |
| ISBN: | 0435943642 |
| Geographic term: | East Africa |
| Subjects: | 1979 State traditional polities history 1700-1799 1800-1899 conference papers (form) |
| Abstract: | This book is a contribution to the debate on State formation. In colonial times African societies were thought of as either 'tribal' or acephalous and therefore Stateless. Yet the examples provided in this book show that African societies in the 18th and 19th centuries in fact fulfilled the prerequisites and definitions of the State. Contents: Introduction, by Ahmed Idha Salim - Precolonial States and European merchant capital in Eastern Africa, by B. Swai - The Balowoka and the establishment of States west of Lake Malawi, by O.J.M. Kalinga - Political change among the Chewa and Yao of the Lake Malawi region, c. 1750-1900, by K.M. Phiri - The emergence of Bunyoro: the tributary mode of production and the formation of the State, 1400-1900, by E. Steinhart - 'State' formation and language change in westernmost Acholi in the 18th century, by R.R. Atkinson - The construction of dominance: the strategies of selected Luo groups in Uganda and Kenya, by R.S. Herring, D.W. Cohen and B.A. Ogot - Ideology and State formation: political and communal ideologies among the south-eastern Shona (Zimbabwe), 1500-1890, by J.K. Rennie - The Lugbara States in the 18th and 19th centuries, by O.J.E. Shiroya - In search of a State among the Kitutu in the 19th century, by W.R. Ochieng' - Witu, Swahili history and the historians, by J. de Vere Allen - State formation in south-western Ethiopia, by E. Haberland. |