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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... least nominal authority over foreign affairs . 32 An Asante declaration of war had to be pronounced by the Asantehene seated upon the hwedom , a throne reserved for this purpose . 33 According to Johnson , writing of Oyo , ' the control ...
... least nominal authority over foreign affairs . 32 An Asante declaration of war had to be pronounced by the Asantehene seated upon the hwedom , a throne reserved for this purpose . 33 According to Johnson , writing of Oyo , ' the control ...
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... least his protection against arbitrary detention.50 The principle seems to have been clearly recognized in most parts of West Africa in pre - colonial times , especially when the diplomatists carried creden- tials of the kind just ...
... least his protection against arbitrary detention.50 The principle seems to have been clearly recognized in most parts of West Africa in pre - colonial times , especially when the diplomatists carried creden- tials of the kind just ...
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... least in part , so that a decentralized government of a feudal type , as discussed in the last chapter , tended to emerge . Swords For many centuries the primary shock weapon nearly everywhere has been the sword , pre - eminent in hand ...
... least in part , so that a decentralized government of a feudal type , as discussed in the last chapter , tended to emerge . Swords For many centuries the primary shock weapon nearly everywhere has been the sword , pre - eminent in hand ...
Table des matières
their Causes Consequences | 28 |
Armies Canoe Fleets | 42 |
Arms Armour | 64 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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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