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Belief, Legitimacy and the Kpojitoarticle 1995 • Bay, Edna G.
Fon • Africa > Western Africa
This article discerns the history of the office of the kpojito, the female reign-mate to the kings of Dahomey, through an analysis of religious change in Dahomey. It argues that the women who became kpojito in the eighteenth century were central to t...