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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... sixteenth century.64 The alleged imprisonment of ambassadors by a sixteenth - century Oba of Benin has been mentioned above . Bosman refers to the murder in the seventeenth cen- tury at ' Great Ardra ' - Allada of an ambassador of the ...
... sixteenth century.64 The alleged imprisonment of ambassadors by a sixteenth - century Oba of Benin has been mentioned above . Bosman refers to the murder in the seventeenth cen- tury at ' Great Ardra ' - Allada of an ambassador of the ...
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... sixteenth - century Borno.5 % The main source of imported mail was Egypt , much being probably second - hand Mamluk equipment , while until recent times there was an industry supplying the Sudan at Omdurman ; Morocco could well have ...
... sixteenth - century Borno.5 % The main source of imported mail was Egypt , much being probably second - hand Mamluk equipment , while until recent times there was an industry supplying the Sudan at Omdurman ; Morocco could well have ...
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... century . Yet the introduction of firearms into the region had taken place , though on a very small scale , some 400 ... sixteenth century . 64 On the Gold Coast , however , the Portuguese found it necessary to arm the Africans living ...
... century . Yet the introduction of firearms into the region had taken place , though on a very small scale , some 400 ... sixteenth century . 64 On the Gold Coast , however , the Portuguese found it necessary to arm the Africans living ...
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their Causes Consequences | 28 |
Armies Canoe Fleets | 42 |
Arms Armour | 64 |
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