Front cover image for Warfare & diplomacy in pre-colonial West Africa

Warfare & diplomacy in pre-colonial West Africa

This study of the relations of the peoples of West Africa in the precolonial period covers a period of four or five hundred years, up to the last decades of the nineteenth century. Smith addresses outside influences but focuses primarily on what happened between African states before the partition and the establishment of colonies.
Print Book, English, 1989
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis., 1989
xii, 164 p. : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780299123345, 0299123340
1119482854