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  • 6 - Ngoyo Meets Dahomey

  • Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University, Washington DC
  • Book:
    The Gift
    Published online:
    26 October 2023
    Print publication:
    16 November 2023, pp 121-157

  • Summary

    Following the silver kimpaba displacement from Cabinda to Abomey, this chapter studies how the precious article was received and incorporated in its new home in the royal palaces of the Kingdom of Dahomey, where material culture and objects of prestige were highly valued. Fon artists of Abomey, including silversmiths, appropriated foreign items to create a panoply of articles combining local and foreign elements. The chapter analyzes the silver kimpaba in comparison to other silver articles fabricated by royal silversmiths in Abomey and discusses how the item became an object of prestige and power, until it was looted by the French troops led by Alfred Amédée Dodds in the late nineteenth century. The chapter also discusses the silver kimpabas legacy in Cabinda. As European powers prepared to conquest and colonize the region, they started offering silver swords modeled after the local kimpaba as gifts to local rulers. Overall, the chapter argues, the silver sword embodied the Mfukas increasing power and the fragmentation of Loango coasts societies.

  • B - Madagascar and France, 1870–1905

  • from 9 - Portuguese Colonies and Madagascar
  • Edited by Roland Oliver, G. N. Sanderson
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Africa
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    05 September 1985, pp 521-538

  • Summary

    With his power henceforth firmly established, Rainilaiarivony, the Prime Minister and consort of Queen Ranavalona II, could govern the country without too many worries, and was able to turn his attention to reforms. The various European colonial powers had begun the process of dividing up Asia and Africa between them, and in this game of chess, Madagascar was merely a minor pawn. Rainilaiarivony had avoided the term 'protectorate', but the French had the firm intention of imposing one in practice. The minister for the Colonies, André Lebon, called in General Gallieni who, first in the Sudan and then in Tonkin, had acquired a well-earned reputation for his skill in colonial pacification. Gallieni was always prepared to alter his own ideas if he found that they were inadequate or out of date, and his second tour of duty was marked by a number of changes.