Les fortifications endogenes au Senegal Oriental (17ème - 19ème siecle) / / Jacques Aymeric Nsangou.

• Superior document: African archaeology ; volume 97
• VerfasserIn: Nsangou, Jacques Aymeric,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, UK : : BAR Publishing,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: French
• Series: African archaeology ; volume 97.; BAR international series ; 3081.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxvii, 145 pages) :; illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour).
• Notes: Also issued in print: 2022.; "This is an open access work distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)"--Title page verso.

This text studies the archaeological remains of the endogenous fortifications of eastern Senegal during the Atlantic slave trade. In his first part, he addresses the generalities by dealing with the determinants of the establishment of fortifications in West Africa. Following a proposal for the classification of West African endogenous fortifications, it gives an overview of the different types of fortifications present from Senegal to Cameroon. In the second part, he presents the military and political history of the state entities of the left bank of the Falémé (the Fulani kingdom of Boundou, and the Malinké kingdoms of Dantila, Sirimana, and Beledougou), as well as the defensive structures that served as the basis for this history. As much as possible, each ruin of fortifications is studied under an archaeological and historical approach.