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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... forest . It seems likely that in early times , as again in the last century , the forest and also the hilltops of the Guinea savannah provided a refuge for peoples driven away from their homes by their more aggressive neighbours in the ...
... forest . It seems likely that in early times , as again in the last century , the forest and also the hilltops of the Guinea savannah provided a refuge for peoples driven away from their homes by their more aggressive neighbours in the ...
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... forest . They were grouped for mutual support and sited to command strategic points along the forest tracks.41 Most of the fortified towns of West Africa lie in level ground , though sometimes enclosing a hill which ( as at Kano ) was ...
... forest . They were grouped for mutual support and sited to command strategic points along the forest tracks.41 Most of the fortified towns of West Africa lie in level ground , though sometimes enclosing a hill which ( as at Kano ) was ...
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... forest fighting where the command could attempt to exercise control only by word of mouth or by drum or trumpet signals , all but impossible to distinguish in the noise and confusion . ( No evidence has been found of the use of ...
... forest fighting where the command could attempt to exercise control only by word of mouth or by drum or trumpet signals , all but impossible to distinguish in the noise and confusion . ( No evidence has been found of the use of ...
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their Causes Consequences | 28 |
Armies Canoe Fleets | 42 |
Arms Armour | 64 |
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Abeokuta African Hist Ajayi and Crowder Ajayi and Smith Alafin Allada ambassadors armed arrows Asante Asantehene attack Badagry Bagirmi Barbot Barth battle Benin Borno Borno army Bosman Bowdich bows Burton Cadamosto camp canoes cavalry Central Sudan Chapter chiefs Clapperton Dagomba Dahomean Dahomey Dalzel Dapper Denham and Clapperton described diplomacy diplomatic Donelha Dupuis early Egba eighteenth century enemy European example Fante fire firearms Fisher Fodio forest Fulani Gobir Gold Coast guns Hausa Hausaland horses Ibadan Ibn Fartua Idris Aloma Igbo Ijaye important infantry Islamic jihad Kanem Kanembu Kano king kingdom Labat Lagos Leo Africanus military mounted muskets Muslims Niger Nigeria nineteenth century Nupe passim political Portuguese pre-colonial West Africa probably river ruler savannah seventeenth century shields sixteenth century slaves Smaldone Snelgrave Sokoto Caliphate soldiers Songhai spears stockade swords town trade troops Usman dan Fodio usually walls warfare warriors weapons West Africa West African armies Whydah Yoruba Yorubaland