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The Political Development of West African Kingdoms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

P. C. Lloyd
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The Journal of African History , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , April 1968 , pp. 319 - 329
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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1 Contributors: R. E. Bradbury, ‘The Kingdom of Benin’; Peter Morton-Williams, ‘The Yoruba Kingdom of Oyo’; J. Lombard, ‘The Kingdom of Dahomey’; M. G. Smith, ‘A Hausa Kingdom: Maradi under Dan Baskore 1854–75’; E. M. Chilver and P.M. Kaberry, ‘The Kingdom of Kom in West Cameroon’; Dominique Zahan, ‘The Mossi Kingdoms’; Jack Goody, ‘The Over-Kingdom of Gonja’; Ivor Wilks, ‘Ashanti Government’; Kenneth Little, ‘The Mende Chiefdoms of Sierra Leone’; Vincent Monteil, ‘The Wolof Kingdom of Kayor’.

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