Notes
Earlier versions of this essay were read at the Twenty‐Third Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of African Studies at Trent University (May 1995), and at the International Studies Centre, Dalhousie University, during the Fall of 1995. I am grateful to Joseph Carens and Melissa Williams for their advice and criticisms during the formative stages of this essay. I am also grateful to Ralph Premdas and the two anonymous JCAS reviewers for their comments which helped me to clarify points that were otherwise obscure.