Violent conflicts in West-African Borgu on the eve of colonisation
Sociologus Beiheft/Supplement 1.1999:119-132
##In order to explain these theses empirically, I shall begin with a brief description of the various groups and the warlords in multi-ethnic Borgu. After that, I will describe the various forms of warlike conflicts and the involvement of individual groups. In that part, I will also outline mechanisms to regulate conflicts. Then I will deal with the second mode of power at the Baatombu, i. e. the redistribution of wealth by means of gifts. Finally, I will describe the above-mentioned cycle connecting those two modes of power. This paper is based on a small number of written documents from the pre-colonial times and on documents from early colonial times as well as on the picture of pre-colonial times drawn by today"s Baatombu in discussions and narratives.##
Keywords: Borgu warfare, war in Borgu, violence, conflict, exchange, power, colonialism
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