Bibliograph

Intermediaries, interpreters, and clerks, African employees in the making of colonial Africa, edited by Benjamin N. Lawrance, Emily Lynn Osborn, and Richard L. Roberts

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Intermediaries, interpreters, and clerks, African employees in the making of colonial Africa, edited by Benjamin N. Lawrance, Emily Lynn Osborn, and Richard L. Roberts

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Intermediaries, interpreters, and clerks

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

64770975

Responsibility statement

edited by Benjamin N. Lawrance, Emily Lynn Osborn, and Richard L. Roberts

Series statement

Africa and the diaspora : history, politics, culture

Sub title

African employees in the making of colonial Africa

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 Lome, 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-Herve Jezequel -- 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

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