This book is a completely revised version of a study published in 1943. That study, entitled Tribal Legislation among the Tswana of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, dealt with the role of chiefs as agents of social change and, in particular, with the changes they brought about by making new laws.
First published in 1953 this book looks at solid, sensitive ethnographic and historical accounts of the peoples and cultures of the Tswana. Part One, a documentation of life and times in the Bechuanaland Protectorate stands as a starkly detailed chronical of an African population in a rapidly changing world whilst Part Two covers the transformation of Tswana life in Botswana and South Africa 1953-85.
