Table of Contents

Preface, S.N. Eisenstadt, Michel Aitbol and Naomi Chazan

Acknowledgements

The Origins of the State Reconsidered, S.N. Eisenstadt, Michel Abitbol and Naomi Chazan

Myths and Politics in Precolonial Africa, Naomi Chazan and Michel Abitbol

The Early State in Africa: The Asante Case, Naomi Chazan

Islam and State Formation in West Africa, Nehemia Levtzion

Maraboutism and State Formation in Southern Morocco, Michel Abitbol

Christianity and the Early State in Ethiapia, Steven Kaplan

State Formation in Africa, Conclusions, S.N. Eisenstadt, Michel Abitbol and Naomi Chazan

Contributors

Index