Part 1 Statebuilding in pre-colonial and colonial Rwanda: Kinyaga and Central Rwanda - early contacts; state and society under Rwabugiri; dual colonialism. Part 2 Patron-client politics: early clientship; the changing status of corporate Kin groups; the transformation of client institutions. Part 3 The cohesion of oppression: Kinyaga and the Kivu complex; pre-independence politics and protest.
Focusing on Kenya and Tanzania, this important study suggests that the solution to third world hunger lies in the interaction of political development and the mobilization of technical resources. The book clarifies as never before the role of political institutions in successful new technology diffusion; shows the similarities between capitalist and socialist states' approaches to technology; and traces the development of assistance projects.
Catherine Newbury is Associate Professor of Political Science and African Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"A carefully researched analysis of the background to the overthrow of Tutsi dominance in the terminal colonial period." -- "Foreign Affairs"
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