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[#LeZOOM] | « La réussite de la Fédération du #Mali devrait marquer le début d’une Fédération en Afrique de l’Ouest et dans toute l’Afrique. Nous avons échoué. Toute la balkanisation de l’#Afrique 🌍 vient de là » rappelait Assane Seck.

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Le Congrès de #Bamako (Soudan français) du 29 au 30 décembre 1958 a permis de poser les bases de la création de la Fédération du Mali.👇
La Fédération passe de 4 à 2 avec le retrait du #Dahomey (actuel #Bénin 🇧🇯) et la Haute-Volta (actuel #BurkinaFaso 🇧🇫) sous la pression conjointe de la #France 🇫🇷 et de la Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮. 👇
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BENIN, OYO, AND DAHOMEY
Warfare, State Building, and the Sacralization of Iron in West African History

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Along the Guinea Coast of West Africa there is a cluster of conquest states that rose to power in the period between 1400 and 1700, and dominated large areas of the forest belt for several centuries.
Their domination was based on well organized and heavily equipped armies using a highly developed iron technology and, in some cases, mounted divisions. These states included the Edo kingdom of Benin, the Fon kingdom of Dahomey, and a series of Yoruba kingdoms, the most...
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Mo lọ sí Ìlú Olómìnira Bẹ̀nẹ̀ lóṣù kéje láti lọ ṣe iṣẹ́ kan. Nígbà tí iṣẹ́ parí, mo lọ káàkiri ìlú náà, mo dé ààfin ọba Dahomey, mo gbọ́ àrọ́bá, mo rí àwòrán lóríṣìiríṣìi, mo sì ka àkọsílẹ̀ ogun tí ó wáyé láàárín àwọn Ẹ̀gbá àti Dahomey.

#OgunDahomeyAtiEgba
Níwọ̀n ìgbà tí mo ṣì wà nínúu ọkọ̀ BRT ọlọ́yẹ́ ń'nú súnkẹrẹ fàkẹrẹ, n ó máa taari ìṣẹ̀lẹ̀ #OgunDahomeyAtiEgba sóríi gbàgede yìí. Ẹ máa bá mi ká lọ!
Lọ́jọ́ Àìkú, ọjọ́ kẹta ọdún-un 1851 tí alẹ́ ti ń ṣú bọ̀, tí òkùnkùn ti ń kùn díẹ̀ díẹ̀, àwọn ọmọ ogun agẹṣinjagun tí ó lọ ṣe alamí láti àárọ̀ ń padà bọ̀ sáàárín ìlú; àwọn olórí ogun àti àwọn ọmọ ogun-un wọ́n ti ń súre lọ sídìí ògiri #OgunDahomeyAtiEgba
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