Table of Contents

Contributors to this issue; Preface; 1. Introduction Jack Goody; 2. Chiefly succession in Basutoland G. I. Jones; 3. Succession to the throne in Buganda Martin Southwold; 4. Succession to the chiefship in northern Unyamwezi R. G. Abrahams; 5. Circulating succession among the Gonja Jack Goody; Bibliography; Figures.

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This 1979 volume provides a general and theoretical analysis of succession in different traditional African societies.