Abstract
In 1858, after a reign of forty years, King Gezo of Dahomey died
and was
succeeded by one of his sons called Badahun, who took the royal name of
Glele by which he is more generally known. Badahun had been Gezo's
designated heir apparent for at least nine years prior to this but his
accession
to the throne was nevertheless challenged. The name Glele which he adopted
alludes to these challenges, being according to Dahomian tradition
abbreviated from the aphorism Glelile ma ñõn ze,
‘You cannot take away a
farm [gle]’, meaning that he would not
allow anyone to appropriate the fruits of his
labours, which is explained as expressing ‘his contempt for the attacks
to
which he had been exposed as heir apparent’.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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