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Dahomeyarticle 1996 • Diamond, Stanley
Fon • Africa > Western Africa
This book reconstructs the historical processes that led to the growth of the Dahomey Kingdom, a traditional monarchial system located in the Gulf of Guinea. The main argument traces this centralized polity in traditional kin- and clan-based social o...