| | Medieval class-structure of northern Ethiopian society; discusses objections to the application of the feudal concept in the historical context of any African society. Hiwet defends the radical position with a definition of feudalism as 'an agrarian economy in which the vast peasant population surrenders its surplus to the maintenance of the ruling class - usually and principally represented by the warrior class and the priestly oligarchy' ; military/feudal/colonialist; centralisation of state, started by Menelik and completed by Haile Selassie. |
