Intermediaries, interpreters, and clerks : African employees in the making of colonial Africa /
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| Language: | English |
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Madison, Wis :
University of Wisconsin Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Africa and the diaspora
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Table of 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.