Succession in Basutoland, Ancient Ireland, Northern Unyamwezi, and Gonja are considered. "Gonja political theory presents us with a type of succession directly opposed to that which we are familiar in the monarchical regimes of Europe, or indeed in most of eastern and southern Africa. Important offices are handed down not between close kinfolk, but between distant members of the dynasty representing different segments of the ruling estate. Consequently the whole of they dynasty, which is a large one at that, is directly concerned in filling the main offices of state." Bibliography, but no index.

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