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Using a structuralist-inspired approach the author analyses a collection of oral historical data from central western Zambia, namely 'Likota lya Bankoya', ('The history of the Nkoya people'), compiled by the first Nkoya Christian pastor, J. Shimunika, in...

Zambia is among the few African countries where chiefs occupy an honorable position at the national level, and where a House of Chiefs is established, complementary to Parliament. This paper examines the relationship between chiefs and the central government on the basis of...

The Kapsiki of Cameroon and the Higi of Nigeria are two tribes from the Mandara hills area of central and western Africa. Though they form one coherent group of villages, they are usually considered as two separate ethnic units. The author normally uses the term Kapsiki for...

Dans la vallée que peuplent les Halpulaar, Soninke, Wolof et Maures le long du cours moyen du fleuve Sénégal, on ne comptait en 1970 que quelques petits périmètres irrigués. Ils étaient plus de 400 en 1982 et à la fin de 1984 plus de 500. Les habitants de la vallée sont en...

Abr. abstr.: This is an account of a study concerning the occurrence of childhood malnutrition in Kilifi District, Kenya. The socioeconomic characteristics of women with malnourished children who attended Kilifi Family Life Training Centre in the year 1984/1985 were analysed...

Presentatie van een geschil tussen twee broers over een geërfde vrouw. Het conflict wordt vergeleken met huwelijken die niet tot geschillen hebben geleid en tenslotte afgezet tegen drie andere huwelijksconflicten. Al deze geschillen zijn voorgelegd aan het kantonhoofd dat een...

Dit onderzoek maakt deel uit van een multi-disciplinair veldonderzoek naar de factoren die een remmende of stimulerende invloed hebben op de ontwikkeling van de rurale economie in Tanzania. Het betreft een sociologische dorpsstudie in het dorp Ngamanga (Rungwe District),...

The film 'Muslims in Mango', which was made during fieldwork among the Anufom in the period 1969-1971, gives an impression of how Islam manifests itself in northern Togo. It centres upon two aspects, writing and prayer. The present report deals briefly with the...

The subject of this study is the co-operation between Kikuyu women in a village, Kulima, in the district of Kiambu in Kenya. The forms of economic co-operation and mutual aid that these women enter into are organized in what they call women's groups. This study deals...

This article aims to clarify the national political culture of Tanzania through an analysis of the Cabinet. It describes the constitutional position of the Cabinet and shows that the President's powers are so overwhelming that the various normative arrangements are of...

A description, based on field work undertaken from February 1979 to June 1980, of the post-colonial state's promotion of capitalist rice farming in the Fumbisi Valley in the southeastern part of the Builsa district of Northern Ghana. It is the author's main thesis...

La coopération étroite entre l'Etat postcolonial camerounais, le capital financier international et l'agroindustrie afin de réaliser une intégration plus complète de la paysannerie locale dans le système capitaliste semble avoir comme objectif la prolétarisation...