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Employing an innovative methodological toolkit, __Doing Conceptual History in Africa__ provides a refreshingly broad and interdisciplinary approach to African historical studies. The studies assembled here focus on the complex role of language in Africa’s historical development, with a particular emphasis on pragmatics and semantics. From precolonial dynamics of wealth and poverty to the conceptual foundations of nationalist movements, each contribution strikes a balance between the local and the global, engaging with a distinctively African intellectual tradition while analyzing the regional and global contexts in which categories like “work,” “marriage,” and “land” take shape. Contents List of Maps, Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Language Introduction. Theories and Methods of African Conceptual History Chapter 1. ‘Wealth’, ‘Poverty’ and the Question of Conceptual History in Oral Contexts: Uganda from c. 1000 CE Chapter 2. Conceptual Continuities: About ‘Work’ in Nguni Chapter 3. Tracking the Concept of ‘Work’ on the North-Eastern Cape Frontier, South Africa Chapter 4. Understanding the Concept of ‘Marriage’ in Afrikaans during the Twentieth Century Chapter 5. Male Circumcision among the Bagisu of Eastern Uganda: Practices and Conceptualizations Chapter 6. The Concept of ‘Land’ in Bioko: ‘Land as Property’ and ‘Land as Country’ Chapter 7. Conceptualizing ‘Land’ and ‘Nation’ in Early Gold Coast Nationalism Chapter 8. An Untimely Concept: Decolonization and the Works of Mudimbe, Mbembe and Nganang Index MAKING SENSE OF HISTORY