Preface / A.R. Radcliffe-Brown -- Introduction / M. Fortes and E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- The kingdom of the Zulu of South Africa / Max Gluckman -- The political organization of the Ngwato of Bechuanaland Protectorate / I. Schapera -- The political system of the Bemba tribe -- north-eastern Rhodesia / Audrey I. Richards -- The kingdom of Ankole in Uganda / K. Oberg -- The Kede : a riverain state in Northern Nigeria / S.F. Nadel -- The political organization of the Bantu of Kavirondo / Gunter Wagner -- The political system of the Tallensi of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast / M. Fortes -- The Nuer of the southern Sudan / E.E. Evans-Pritchard