Smith Robert Sydney. Warfare and Diplomacy in Pre-Colonial West Africa

Methuen and Company, 1976. — 256 p.This new edition of the well-known innovative study of the relations of the peoples of West Africa in the pre-colonial period covers a period of four or five hundred years, up to the last decades of the nineteenth century. Smith addresses outside influences but focuses primarily on what happened between African states before the partition and the establishment of colonies. Robert S. Smith was senior lecturer and professor of history at Lagos, Ife and Ibadan universities, in Nigeria.