Warfare & Diplomacy in Pre-colonial West AfricaUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1989 - 164 pages This new edition of the well-known innovative study of the relations of the peoples of West Africa in the precolonial period covers a period of some four or five hundred years, up to the last decades of the nineteenth century.& Smith takes account of outside influences but focuses primarily on what happened between African states before the partition of the area and the establishment of colonies. |
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... GOBIR • Katsina Tsuntua FULANI BORNO AND HAUSA BORGU Zaria Bauchi Plateau Nok . Old Oyo Abomey Ilorin NUPE YORUBA DAHOMEY Ibadan TIV Abeokuta Allada ljebu Ode IGALA Sahé Lagos BENIN Benin WE Whydah Badagry Ughoton • City IGBO Warri Aboh ...
... GOBIR • Katsina Tsuntua FULANI BORNO AND HAUSA BORGU Zaria Bauchi Plateau Nok . Old Oyo Abomey Ilorin NUPE YORUBA DAHOMEY Ibadan TIV Abeokuta Allada ljebu Ode IGALA Sahé Lagos BENIN Benin WE Whydah Badagry Ughoton • City IGBO Warri Aboh ...
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... Gobir , in October 1826 , of which Clapperton gives the following , rather jaundiced eye - witness account : At 4 a.m. all was ready for commencing the war ; but it was six before they started ; the intermediate time being spent mostly ...
... Gobir , in October 1826 , of which Clapperton gives the following , rather jaundiced eye - witness account : At 4 a.m. all was ready for commencing the war ; but it was six before they started ; the intermediate time being spent mostly ...
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... Gobir kingdom , while his assumption of the title of Amir al- Mu'minin threatened all the states in the region . Yunfa , the Sarki ( king ) of Gobir , could not allow this situation to continue unchecked , and in June , just before the ...
... Gobir kingdom , while his assumption of the title of Amir al- Mu'minin threatened all the states in the region . Yunfa , the Sarki ( king ) of Gobir , could not allow this situation to continue unchecked , and in June , just before the ...
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their Causes Consequences | 28 |
Armies Canoe Fleets | 42 |
Arms Armour | 64 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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