Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Who is Archie Mafeje? -- Mafeje's ideological and philosophical orientations -- The critique of anthropology and alterity -- The study of rural African society -- Culture as the 'missing link' in African development -- The issue of 'social formations' of African society -- Mafeje's attempts to endogenise and deconstruct knowledge production -- The African post-colonial state and the African elite -- Mafeje and African philosophy -- The Interlacustrine Kingdoms as 'social formations' -- Mafeje - The South African radical -- Cosmology, epistemology and academic disciplines -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Back cover.