Landlords and Strangers: Ecology, Society, and Trade in Western Africa, 1000-1630.

Abstract

Western Africa - the environmental setting language groups and social organizations the development of Western African commercial networks - an overview Mande caravan routes linking Senegambia, the Upper Guinea coast and the Malaguetta coast Biafada-Sapi, Banyun-Bak and Kruan coastwise and riverine networks the era of Mandekalu horse warriors and state building European voyages of reconnaissance and the inauguration of new trading relationships the Cabo Verde archipelago/Western Africa nexus African landlords and competing European and Cabo Verdean strangers, c1500-c1630 Senegambia and the Banyun-Bak commercial sphere the Biafada-Sapi and Kruan trade networks.