Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-x

Acknowledgements

pp xi-xiii

Abbreviations

pp xiv-xiv

Glossary

pp xv-xvi

General introduction

pp 1-16

Part One - FROM ZARIBA TO MERKAZ: THE CREATION OF THE NODAL STATE FRONTIER, c. 1840–1920

pp 17-20

1 - Frontier societies and the political economy of knowledge in the nineteenth century

pp 21-40

2 - Colonial frontiers and the emergence of government chiefs, c. 1900–1920

pp 41-60

Part Two - FROM MAKAMA TO MEJLIS: THE MAKING OF CHIEFSHIP AND THE LOCAL STATE, 1920s–1950s

pp 61-64

3 - Constituting the urban frontier: chiefship and the colonial labour economy, 1920s–1940s

pp 65-86

4 - Claiming rights and guarantees: chiefs' courts and state justice, c. 1900–1956

pp 87-106

5 - Containing the frontier: the tensions of territorial chiefdoms, 1930s–1950s

pp 107-124

6 - Uncertainty on the urban frontier: chiefs and the politics of Sudanese independence, 1946–1958

pp 125-142

Part Three - FROM MALAKIYA TO MEDINA: THE FLUCTUATING EXPANSION OF THE URBAN FRONTIER, c. 1956–2010

pp 143-146

7 - Trading knowledge: chiefship, local elites and the urban frontier, c. 1956–2010

pp 147-164

8 - Regulating depredation: chiefs and the military, 1963–2005

pp 165-180

9 - Reprising ‘tradition’: the mutual production of community and state in the twenty-first century

pp 181-198

10 - Knowing the system: judicial pluralism and discursive legalism in the interim period, 2005–2010

pp 199-216

Conclusion

pp 217-224

Interviews

pp 225-230

Bibliography

pp 231-246

Index

pp 247-254

Eastern African Studiues

pp 255-255