West African Kingdoms in the Nineteenth Century

✍ Scribed by Daryll Forde, P. M. Kaberry

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1967
Tongue: English
Leaves: 308
Series: African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century, Vol. 26
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Originally published in 1967 this volume presents studies of 10 West African kingdoms which have played an important part in the economic, political and cultural life of the region. Ranging geographically from the kingdom of Benin in southern Nigeria to the Wolof kingdom of Kayor in Senegal, they inlcude the Oyo Yoruba, Dahomey, Hausa, Maradi, Kom in West Cameroon, the Mossi, Ashanti and Gonja and the Mende chiefdoms of Sierra Leone. Each outlines the historical origins and development of the kingdom and analyses its organization in the nineteenth century. It includes accounts of the economic basis and resources of the state and the significance of tribute and trade, of the social categories among its population, the administrarive machinery and communnications, the judicial and military organization and external relations. It also considers the importance of the ideology and rituals of kingship.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Frontispiece
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
LIST OF MAPS
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES
INTRODUCTION Daryll Forde and Phyllis Kaberry
THE KINGDOM OF BENIN R. E. Bradbury
THE YORUBA KINGDOM OF OYO Peter Morton-Williams
THE KINGDOM OF DAHOMEY J. Lombard
A HAUSA KINGDOM: MARADI UNDER DAN BASKORE, 1854-75 M . G. Smith
THE KINGDOM OF KOM IN WEST CAMEROON E. M. Chilver and P. M. Kaberry
THE MOSSI KINGDOMS Dominique Zahan
THE OVER-KINGDOM OF GONJA Jack Goody
ASHANTI GOVERNMENT Ivor Wilks
THE MENDE CHIEFDOMS OF SIERRA LEONE Kenneth Little
THE WOLOF KINGDOM OF KAYOR Vincent Monteil
INDEX

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