A Research Definition of African Feudality
Jacques Maquet
Since African Political Systems , edited by Fortes and Evans-Pritchard in 1940, many monographs have been published on particular political organization of pre-colonial Africa. Some attempts made to synthesize these data order constitute a typology organizations; for instance the segmentary type has studied Middleton's Tribes Without Rulers (1958), absolute monarchies given an important place Murdock his Africa (1959) others (e.g. P. Hadfield: Traits Divine Kingship London, 1949). Typological research falls within historian's province if he is interested problem uniformities history.
The Journal of African History