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Title: | Franco-Samori Relations, 1886-1889, Diplomacy as War |
Author: | Oloruntimehin, B. Olatunji |
Year: | 1971 |
Periodical: | Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 67-92 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | West Africa France |
Subjects: | colonial conquest traditional rulers History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
About person: | Samori (ca1830-1900) is Samori Touré |
Abstract: | After a short survey of different conceptions of diplomacy, the article analyses the diplomatic relations between the French and Samori, an African leader in Western Sudan. In this period diplomacy was a kind of warfare, aimed at absorbing Samori's state. Notes. |