Contents
Prologue. A SCATTERED WISDOM
PART ONE. AFRICA’S WORLD
1. ‘Just plain nonsense . . .’ and after
2. Formative Origins
3. The Physical Problem
4. Unity and Variation
PART TWO. SOCIAL CHARTERS
5. Founding Ancestors
6. The Balance with Nature
7. A Moral Order
8. Elaborations I: Age Sets
9. Elaborations II: Secret Societies
PART THREE. STRUCTURES OF BELIEF
10. A Science of Social Control
11. Of Witches and Sorcerers
12. Upside-Down People
13. Explanation and Prediction
14. The Danger Within
15. Useful Magic
16. Answers to Anxiety
17. Art for Life’s Sake
18. The Dynamics of Reality
PART FOUR. MECHANISMS OF CHANGE
19. From Elders to Kings
20. The Nature of Kingship
21. Conquest and Clientage
22. Trade and Islam
23. Power, Rank and Privilege
24. The Crisis Opens
PART FIVE. THE DELUGE AND TODAY
25. From a Guerrilla Diary
26. The Great Transition
27. The Kings Resist
28. Twilight of the Old Gods
29. New Redeemers
30. The Modern Context
31. The Masses React
Epilogue. AFRICAN DESTINIES
Acknowledgements
Notes and References
Select Bibliography
Index
