[HN Gopher] 'So Long' from King Naimbanna II - Manuscripts from ...
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       'So Long' from King Naimbanna II - Manuscripts from an 18th Century
       African King
        
       Author : diodorus
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2021-12-03 04:39 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | Apocryphon wrote:
       | Sierra Leone is fascinating- it's like the British version of
       | Liberia, a settler state founded by an imperial power to
       | repatriate emancipated freemen.
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       | Sounds like this king was the ruler of one of the local kingdoms
       | on the interior who had to contend with this new presence.
       | Initially, relations with the Europeans were friendly. But over
       | time, his descendants lost control of their kingdom to their own
       | squabbling and the Europeans took over.
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       | Same thing happened to the Kingdom of Kongo, which despite being
       | a devoutly Catholic convert state, was eventually overrun by the
       | Portuguese who were their original external contacts.
        
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