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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 August 2010
      23 January 1975
      ISBN:
      9780511759697
      9780521101097
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511759697
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      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.34kg, 224 Pages
      • Series:
      African Studies (15)
      Subjects:
      African Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, African History
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    Series:
    African Studies (15)
    Subjects:
    African Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, African History
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    Political life among the Wolof (the largest and most powerful of Senegal's 'tribal' groups) is the principal theme of this collection of essays. The focus of study is on African political leadership, in towns and villages. Within the constraints of alien control or influence, it is argued, cultural and organisational barriers have consistently allowed a wide range of initiative to African leaders and communities in a creative and flexible adjustment to new and unfamiliar demands. Exploration of this African initiative in various contexts suggests a complex, fascinating pattern of cultural and structural interaction. The multidisciplinary approach to politics in these essays will interest historians and social anthropologists as well as political scientists. These studies are indeed relevant to any student of the problems of 'underdeveloped' societies involved in the modern state. Parts of the essays have been published elsewhere, but all have been extensively revised, updated and integrated to a coherent pattern of analysis.

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