Credit, currencies, and culture :  African financial institutions in historical perspective / 
edited by Endre Stiansen and Jane I. Guyer. 
 - Uppsala, Sweden :  Nordiska Afrikainstitutet,  1999. 
 - vi, 174 p. :  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Most of these papers were first presented as a seminar series, "Financial Institutions in Africa, historical and contemporary perspectives," at the Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, during the winter of 1996. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Introduction / E. Stiansen & J. Guyer -- Finance and credit in pre-colonial Dahomey / Robin Law -- On currency and credit in the western Sahel, 1700-1850 / James L.A. Webb -- Slaves as money in the Sokoto Caliphate / Jan Hogendorn -- Islamic financial institutions / John Hunwick -- Islamic banking in the Sudan / Endre Stiansen -- Imposing a guide on the indigène : the fifty year experience of the Sociétés de prévoyance in French West and Equatorial Africa / Gregory Mann & Jane I. Guyer -- Kòse-é-mánì : idealism and contradiction in the Yoruba view of money. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9171064427 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Financial institutions--Africa<br/>Credit--Africa<br/>Money--Africa
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>332.11096 CRE