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Kafabook chapter 1982 • Lange, Werner J.
Kaffa • Africa > Eastern Africa
This book discusses the history of pre-1897 Kaffa history based on ethnographic field work conducted in 1972-1973. It provides valuable primary data, including verbatim reports of informants’ ...Dialectics of divine 'kingship' in the Kafa highlandsBook 1976 • Lange, Werner J.
Kaffa • Africa > Eastern Africa
This document explains the nature and structure of Kaffa kingship. It argues that the divine nature of the Kaffa king should be explained not in the religious ideology that portrays him as the...