Chiefs and Bureaucrats in the Making of Empire: A Drama from the Transkei, South Africa, October 1880.

Explores the cultural history of state formation and African resistance in Transkei, South Africa. Role played by bureaucrats in imperial expansion into the Transkei during the nineteenth century; Phases of the imperial expansion during the Transkei colonial rule; Symbol of the mytho-historical relationship between authority and the land; Factors attributed to the development of African resistance in the early 1880s.