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Les traités entre le Fuuta-Tooro et Saint-Louis : commerce, taxes et sécurité à l’intersection (1785-1808)

Afriques
Between the official end of the first English occupation of Senegal in 1783 (Treaty of Versailles) and the second English occupation of St. Louis in 1809, France concluded only three treaties with the Fuuta-Tooro, aiming to revive trade, ensure the ...
Cheikh Sene
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Les descriptions d’un banquet royal au Ndongo (Angola) en 1560 par le jésuite António Mendes : l’ambivalence des sources coloniales

Afriques, 2014
When the first Jesuit missionaries arrived in Luanda in 1559 there was great conflict in the region between the king of Congo, Diogo-Ier, and the Ngola who sought emancipation from Congolese control.
Dora De Lima
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L’évolution et les mobilités spatiales de la ville de Musumb, capitale de l’empire lunda de 1852 à 1885

Afriques
This study intends to show the importance and role of the city of Musumb in the history of the Lunda State in Central Africa. This role will be examined by analysing the reigns of the various emperors who succeeded each other on the throne during the pre-
Liévain Mwangal Mpalang’a-Maruv
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La consommation d’animaux sauvages dans la Corne de l’Afrique (4e millénaire avant J.-C.-début du XXe siècle)

Afriques, 2014
On the Horn of Africa, the great diversity of natural environments and their evolution over the last ten millennia led to the development of a large number of human societies.
Thomas Guindeuil, Joséphine Lesur
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Recognizing plague epidemics in the archaeological record of West Africa

Afriques, 2018
Many archaeological sites in the central West African savanna were either abandoned or reduced in size between the 14th and 15th centuries CE.
Daphne E. Gallagher, Stephen A. Dueppen
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Rum, Gin and Maize: Deities and Ritual Change in the Gold Coast during the Atlantic Era (16th century to 1850)

Afriques, 2014
This paper examines the incorporation of rum and gin as powerful spiritual drinks in pre-colonial Gold Coast, particularly in the context of state formation and warfare, and the growing importance of maize, side by side with the indigenous yam, as the ...
Emmanuel Akyeampong, Samuel A. Ntewusu
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Reflections on plague in African history (14th–19th c.)

Afriques, 2018
In 1347, the western and Mediterranean parts of the Old World recorded the first outbreaks of a returning mortal disease that would make its presence felt over several centuries.
Gérard Chouin
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Negative spaces of Mumuye figure sculpture—style and ethnicity

Afriques, 2019
Revisiting the attribution of figures to Mumuye, provides us with an opportunity to think about the effects of ethnic labelling on our appreciation of ‘precontemporary African art’.
Richard Fardon
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Les tombeaux des rois Zāgwē, Yemreḥanna Krestos et Lālibalā (XIIe-XVIe siècle), et leurs évolutions symboliques

Afriques, 2012
The tombs of two kings of the Zagwe dynasty, Yemrehanna Krestos and Lālibalā, are said to be located in churches that they founded. However this information does not figure in the first texts written about these Ethiopian saint-kings.
Marie-Laure Derat
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Ce que l’itinéraire nous dit du voyage. Listes d’itinéraire, voyage et imaginaire spatial au Soudan central au XIXe siècle

Afriques, 2011
The European explorers who traveled in the central Sudan during the first half of the 19th century concentrated on gathering the geographical information necessary for drawing maps once they would return to Europe.
Camille Lefebvre
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