| Description |
viii, 332 pages : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Africa and the diaspora
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Africa and the diaspora.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-317) and index. |
| Contents |
An interpreter will arise : resurrecting Jan Tzatzoe's diplomatic and evangelical contributions as cultural intermediary on South Africa's eastern Cape frontier, 1816-1818 / Roger S. Levine -- Interpreting colonial power in French Guinea : The Boubou Penda-Ernest Noirot affair of 1905 / Emily Lynn Osborn -- Interpretation and interpolation : Shepstone as native interpreter / Thomas McClendon -- Petitioners, "bush lawyers," and letter writers : court access in British-occupied Lomé, 1914-1920 / Benjamin N. Lawrance -- Negotiating legal authority in French West Africa : the colonial administration and African assessors, 1903-1918 / Ruth Ginio -- "Collecting customary law" : educated Africans, ethnographic writings, and colonial justice in French West Africa / Jean-Hervé Jézéquel -- Interpreters self-interpreted : the autobiographies of two colonial clerks / Ralph A. Austen -- African court elders in Nyanza Province, Kenya, ca. 1930-1960 : from "traditional" to "modern" / Brett L. Shadle -- Power and influence of African court clerks and translators in colonial Kenya : the case of Khwisero Native (African) Court, 1946-1956 / Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi -- The district clerk and the "man-leopard murders" : mediating law and authority in colonial Nigeria / David Pratten -- Cultural commuters : African employees in late colonial Tanzania / Andreas Eckert -- African participation in colonial rule : the role of clerks, interpreters, and other intermediaries. |
| Subject |
Africa -- History -- 19th century.
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Africa. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Africa -- History -- 1884-1960.
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| Chronological Term |
1884-1960 |
| Subject |
Europe -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration.
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Europe. |
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Colonies. |
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Administration. |
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Europe -- Colonies -- Africa -- History -- 19th century.
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Europe -- Colonies -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Colonial administrators -- Africa -- History.
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Colonial administrators. |
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Translators -- Africa -- History.
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Translators. |
| Added Author |
Lawrance, Benjamin N. (Benjamin Nicholas)
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Osborn, Emily Lynn.
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Roberts, Richard L., 1949-
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| ISBN |
029921950X cloth alkaline paper |
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0299219542 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780299219543 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780299219505 hardback |
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