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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... king , John III , three Portuguese friars at Benin wrote that the Oba ( king ) there had the ' habit of ill - treating and imprisoning all ambassadors of kings who send messages to him ' , treatment which he had accorded to the envoys ...
... king , John III , three Portuguese friars at Benin wrote that the Oba ( king ) there had the ' habit of ill - treating and imprisoning all ambassadors of kings who send messages to him ' , treatment which he had accorded to the envoys ...
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... king to the people and for the people to the king . The Meu , as chef de protocole , also took charge of all strangers and supervised public cere- monies . According to Dalzel : The King ( of Dahomey ) , and all his subjects , receive ...
... king to the people and for the people to the king . The Meu , as chef de protocole , also took charge of all strangers and supervised public cere- monies . According to Dalzel : The King ( of Dahomey ) , and all his subjects , receive ...
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... king of Congo had reached Lisbon , whence it proceeded in company with three Portuguese envoys - all men of rank who were fully accredited - to Rome in order to make an act of obedience to the new Pope , 123 In the seventeenth century ...
... king of Congo had reached Lisbon , whence it proceeded in company with three Portuguese envoys - all men of rank who were fully accredited - to Rome in order to make an act of obedience to the new Pope , 123 In the seventeenth century ...
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their Causes Consequences | 28 |
Armies Canoe Fleets | 42 |
Arms Armour | 64 |
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