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      Pre-Colonial Lusophone Kingship and Elite Migrations: A Case Study of the Warri Kingdom

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          Abstract This paper examines how African kingship changed as a result of cross-cultural interaction due to the Portuguese presence in the Niger Delta on the Gulf of Guinea in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The early modern Warri Kingdom had connections to the wider Lusophone world and Europe through the diplomatic missions and migrations of its princes. The Warri Kingdom’s dynasty is composed of twenty-one olus (kings) with the most recent olu being crowned in 2021. This paper examines the biographies of three successive olus who reigned between the late-sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries and approaches the lives of these olus as a coeval prism through which to view and better understand the entanglements of religion, commerce, and elite migration.

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          Resumo Este artigo analisa como a realeza africana mudou como consequência de interações transculturais por causa da presença portuguesa nos séculos XVI e XVII na delta do Rio Níger no Golfo da Guiné. O reino de Warri, no início da Idade Moderna, matinha ligações com o mundo lusófono e a Europa através de missões diplomáticas e as migrações dos seus príncipes. A dinastia Warri é composta de vinte e um olus (reis), sendo que o mais recente foi coroado em 2021. Este artigo olha para as biografias de três olus sucessivos que reinaram entre o fim do século XVI e os meados do século XVII, e aborda as vidas destes olus por um prisma contemporâneo para melhor entender os entrelaçamentos de religião, comércio e migração de elites.

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                Journal
                ejph
                e-Journal of Portuguese History
                e-JPH
                Universidade do Porto; Brown University (Porto, , Portugal )
                1645-6432
                December 2022
                : 20
                : 2
                : 30-46
                Affiliations
                [1] Connecticut Connecticut orgnameYale University United States allegra.ayida@ 123456yale.edu
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                S1645-64322022000200030 S1645-6432(22)02000200030
                10.26300/zzm1-km21
                c29929d9-a717-4524-85af-fe3c36196656

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 15 October 2022
                : 15 June 2022
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                Special Issue: Migrations and Diasporas in Portuguese Speaking Africa(s)

                Itsekiri,Warri,sincretismo religioso,Cristianismo,Realeza Africana,religious syncretism,Christianity,African kingship

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