Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xxi
5. Introduction: Thinking through Africa’s Impasse 3
6. The structure of power
7. Decentralized Despotism 37
8. Indirect Rule: the Politics of Decentralized Despotism 62
9. Customary law: the Theory of Decentralized Despotism 109
10. The Native Authority and the Free Peasantry 138
11. The anatomy of resistance
12. The Other Face of Tribalism: Peasant Movements in Equatorial Africa 183
13. The Rural in the Urban: Migrant Workers in South Africa 218
14. Conclusion: Linking the Urban and the Rural 285
15. Notes 303
16. Index 339