\ AFRICAN POLITICAL SYSTEMS AFRICAN POLITICAL SYSTEMS Editedby M. FORTES, M.A., Ph.D. and E. E. EVANS-PRITCHARD, M.A., Ph.D. Publishedfor the INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE by the OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO Library Institute of Industrial Relations University of California Los Angeles 24, California 4 Oxford University Press, Amen House, London, B.C. GLASGOW NEWYORK TORONTO MELBOURNE WELLINGTON BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS CAPETOWN Geoffrey Cnmberlege, Publisher to the University .... First Edition 1940 SecondImpression 1941 . ThirdImpression 194S . . Fourth Impression 1950 . . Printed in Great Britain by Jarrotd & Sons, Ltd., Nonvich and London