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       The Gun in Central Africa

      NEW AFRICAN HISTORIES

      SERIES EDITORS: JEAN ALLMAN, ALLEN ISAACMAN, AND DEREK R. PETERSON

      Books in this series are published with support from the Ohio University Center for International Studies.

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       The Gun in Central Africa

       A History of Technology and Politics

      Giacomo Macola

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      Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Macola, Giacomo, author.

      Title: The gun in central Africa : a history of technology and politics / Giacomo Macola.

      Other titles: New African histories series.

      Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2016. | Series: New African histories

      Identifiers: LCCN 2015046077| ISBN 9780821422113 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821422120 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821445556 (pdf)

      Subjects: LCSH: Firearms—Africa, Central—History. | Firearms—Social aspects—Africa, Central—History.

      Classification: LCC U897.A352 M33 2016 | DDC 683.400967—dc23

      LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015046077

      ISBN 9780821445556 (e-book)

      FOR DAVINA

       “We don’t follow no crowd / They follow us”

       Contents

       List of Illustrations

       Acknowledgments

       A Note on Hereditary Titles

       Introduction. Firearms and the History of Technology in Africa

      

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