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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... Idris Aloma , designed to regain possession of the original homeland of the Borno nation , and for the frequent Oyo expeditions against Dahomey in the eighteenth century . But in West Africa territo- rial aggrandizement was by no means ...
... Idris Aloma , designed to regain possession of the original homeland of the Borno nation , and for the frequent Oyo expeditions against Dahomey in the eighteenth century . But in West Africa territo- rial aggrandizement was by no means ...
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... Idris Aloma of Borno , when making war on his pagan neighbours around Lake Chad , habitually caused all male prisoners to be executed , while the women and children were taken captive - the sparing of these latter being an example of ...
... Idris Aloma of Borno , when making war on his pagan neighbours around Lake Chad , habitually caused all male prisoners to be executed , while the women and children were taken captive - the sparing of these latter being an example of ...
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... Idris Aloma of Borno in the sixteenth century was to draw out the enemy by use of a small decoy force and then to fall on them with the larger part of his army . A simple ruse was adopted by king Kpengla of Dahomey during his siege of ...
... Idris Aloma of Borno in the sixteenth century was to draw out the enemy by use of a small decoy force and then to fall on them with the larger part of his army . A simple ruse was adopted by king Kpengla of Dahomey during his siege of ...
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their Causes Consequences | 28 |
Armies Canoe Fleets | 42 |
Arms Armour | 64 |
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