As soon as Europeans set foot on African soil, they looked for the
equivalents of their kings - and found them. The resulting
misunderstandings have lasted until this day. Based on
ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical
re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups,
this volume makes the arresting claim that across equatorial Africa
the model of rule has been medicine - and not the colonizer's
despotic administrator, the missionary's divine king, or Vansina's
big man. In a wide area populated by speakers of Bantu and other
languages of the Niger-Congo cluster, both cult and dynastic clan
draw on the fertility shrine, rainmaking charm and drum they
inherit.
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