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Le festin dahoméen. Femmes du palais, politiques internes et pratiques culinaires en Afrique de l’Ouest au XVIIIe-XIXe siècle

Afriques, 2014
Feasting is a central component of elite power strategies in complex societies worldwide. In the precolonial Kingdom of Dahomey, located in the Republic of Bénin, public feasts were a critical component of royal strategies to attract and bind political ...
J. Cameron Monroe, Anneke Janzen
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Vie et miracles de Daniel de Qorqor. Introduction

Afriques, 2014
The Life and the miracles of Daniel of Qorqor are currently known through two manuscripts preserved in the church of Māryām Qorqor in Tigray. The first, dated to 1911 A.D., is available only on a microfilm kept at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies in ...
Gérard Colin
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Vie et miracles de Daniel de Qorqor. Édition du texte guèze

Afriques, 2014
This edition and translation of the Life and Miracles of Daniel is based on a manuscript still kept in the church of Māryām Qorqor. Covered with wooden boards, it measures 34.5 x 30 x 9 cm and has 115 folios of parchment.
Gérard Colin
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L’archipel des Comores et son histoire ancienne. Essai de mise en perspective des chroniques, de la tradition orale et des typologies de céramiques locales et d’importation

Afriques, 2015
This article treats neither the early modern history nor the contemporary history of the Comoro Islands, but aims to study the earlier periods by correlating and comparing three types of documents despite the inherent difficulties of doing so ...
Claude Allibert
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Dispute over precedence and protocol: Hagiography and forgery in 19th-century Ethiopia

Afriques, 2016
This study investigates the textual and legal issues conveyed by records of a court case that took place in 1897 involving the Ethiopian churches of Dima and Märtulä Maryam over precedence, court etiquette, and decorum.
Habtamu Mengistie Tegegne
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L’immigration indentured à l’île Maurice, 1840-1870 : conditions, abus et résistance

Afriques, 2015
This article analyzes the indentured labour in Mauritius between the 1840s and the 1870s. In particular it focuses on labour forms and relationships, the salaries level and payment, debt and eventually savings, health assistance and the conditions for ...
Alessandro Stanziani
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Mobilité et archéologie le long de l’arc oriental du Niger : pavements et percuteurs

Afriques, 2013
This analysis of the role of migration in West Africa begins by recalling the prevalence of oral traditions about so-called 'first-comers', and takes the example of dry season migrations in the Hausa area (cin rani).
Anne Haour
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Initial Encounters: Seeking traces of ancient trade connections between West Africa and the wider world

Afriques, 2013
The long-standing, more mythical than fact-based assumptions about ancient trade contacts between West Africa and the wider world prior to the Arab conquest of North Africa have only been substantiated by archaeological evidence in recent years. Although
Sonja Magnavita
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Le Discours historique de l’estat du royaume de Borno, genèse et construction d’une histoire du Borno par un captif de Tripoli au XVIIe siècle

Afriques, 2013
The Discours historique de l’estat du royaume de Borno, written by a former French slave in Tripoli in 1685, is one of the most important sources for the history of Borno sultanate.
Rémi Dewière
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Bentyia (Kukyia): a Songhay–Mande meeting point, and a “missing link” in the archaeology of the West African diasporas of traders, warriors, praise-singers, and clerics

Afriques, 2013
The present tragedy in Mali draws our attention to the divisions, tensions and conflicts between West African ethnic groups, religious persuasions, and populations from different regions, in both the present and the past.
Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias
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