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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... early European visitors to Africa , in particular by the Portuguese . Traders enjoyed , for example , the protection of law for the unwritten contracts , based on oaths and ' medicine ' , which they made with the local inhabitants ...
... early European visitors to Africa , in particular by the Portuguese . Traders enjoyed , for example , the protection of law for the unwritten contracts , based on oaths and ' medicine ' , which they made with the local inhabitants ...
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... earliest reference to diplomatic relations in West Africa seems to be the account by al - Saghir ( writing in the early tenth century ) of the sending of an ambassador ( called Muhammad ibn Arafa ) by a ninth - century Imam of Tabert in ...
... earliest reference to diplomatic relations in West Africa seems to be the account by al - Saghir ( writing in the early tenth century ) of the sending of an ambassador ( called Muhammad ibn Arafa ) by a ninth - century Imam of Tabert in ...
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... early eighteenth century from Nupe at the same time as muskets . But it seems reasonable to assume that shields of some kind to ward off arrows and sword thrusts have been in use everywhere almost as long as these basic weapons ; the ...
... early eighteenth century from Nupe at the same time as muskets . But it seems reasonable to assume that shields of some kind to ward off arrows and sword thrusts have been in use everywhere almost as long as these basic weapons ; the ...
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their Causes Consequences | 28 |
Armies Canoe Fleets | 42 |
Arms Armour | 64 |
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