1. Introduction2. Tribe, Ethnicity, and Colonial Rule3. The Particularity of Tribal Allegiance in Sub-Saharan Africa4. The Profusion of Tribes as Determinant Factor in Sub-Saharan Africa5. Tribe is Not Ethnicity: The Untenability of Anti-tribe and Pro-ethnicity Arguments6. Tribe is Not a Component of Ethnicity 7. Tribal Allegiance and the Overstated Role of the Colonial State8. Precolonial History and the Saliency and Persistence of Tribal Allegiance9...