Land, literacy and the state in Sudanic Africa

Abstract

The conceptualization of land tenure in the precolonial Sudan : evidence and interpretation / Lidwien Kapteijns and Jay Spaulding -- New perspectives on the Diwan : state formation and the rise of Kanuri domination in the central Sudan (A.D. 1200-1600) / Augustin Holl -- By these means he is able to procure what he is most in need of : predatory accumulation and state formation in Bagirmi (1846-1877) / Stephen Reyna -- Building a state and struggling over land : the Taqali Kingdom, 1750-1884 / Janet Ewald -- Mud on the belly of the bull : land, power and state formation in eighteenth and nineteenth century Dar Fur / George Michael La Rue -- Land, agriculture, and social class formation in the Gibe Region, from the mid-nineteenth century to 1936 / Gulumu Gemeda -- Military elites in medieval Ethiopia / Merid Wolde Aregay -- The politics of the northern border : state control and the land tenure system in nineteenth century Ethiopia / Irma Taddia -- Landsale contracts as historical sources : methodology and analysis / Anders Bjorkelo -- The establishment of Gemjabét Kidandä Mehret Church in Däbrä Marqos, Gojjam Province / Donald Crummey and Daniel Ayana -- Waaqf-land in nineteenth century Wällo (Ethiopia) / Hussein Ahmad -- Land rights, commerce, and royal authority in Kano / Allan Christelow