Author: ABRAHAM, Arthur.
Title: Mende Government and Politics Under Colonial Rule: A Historical Study of Political Change in Sierra Leone, 1890-1937.
Description: Sierra Leone University Press, 1978. Hardcover. Slight wear to dust jacket, a little foxing to edges, top corner of front endpaper clipped, otherwise condition very good. Argues "...that in nineteenth century Mendeland s new system was developing, consisting of both territorial and personal chiefdoms and that the effect and intention of British policy was to frustrate the development of their system and to break up unities which already existed". 330pp. ISBN 0197116388.

Keywords: history historical social politics political 19th nineteenth century africa african sierra leone british colony colonial