Table of Contents:
  • The Social Preconditions of Revolution
  • Part 1 : Statebuilding in Precolonial and Colonial Rwanda
  • Kinyaga and Central Rwanda : Early contacts
  • State and Society under Rwabugiri
  • Dual Colonialism
  • Part 2 : Patron-Client Politics
  • Early Clientship
  • The Changing Status of Corporate Kin Groups
  • The Transformation of Client Institutions
  • Part 3 : The Cohesion of Oppression
  • Kinyaga and the Kivu Complex
  • Pre-Independence Politics and Protest
  • TLS, 1/7/94, p. 3, A. de Waal.