Chapter
Kabou
- Title
- Kabou
- list of authors
- Robert Cornevin
- list of editors
- Peri J. Bearman
- Thierry Bianquis
- Clifford Edmund Bosworth
- Emeri J. van Donzel
- Wolfhart Heinrichs
- Abstract
- Kabou, a locality in Togo (9° 25′N., 0° 50′E.), 24 km. to the north of Bassari, an important market whose prosperity, in pre-colonial times, was based partly on the barter of crude iron given to the Kabre iron-smiths of Lama-Kara in exchange for slaves, and partly on its function as a halting place on the kolacaravan routes. The presence in Kabou of Muslim outsiders (particularly Ḥawsa and D̲j̲erma) was therefore not unusual.
- Book Title
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- Place of Publication
- Leiden
- Publisher
- Brill
- Date
- 2012
- Language
- Anglais
- Spatial Coverage
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Togo