
Robin Law
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LOCATION: Bridge of Allan FK9 4RP, United Kingdom
Professor of African History, University of Stirling, Scotland. Author of The Slave Coast of West Africa, 1550–1750 and others.
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Benin, country of western Africa. It consists of a narrow wedge of territory extending northward for about 420 miles (675 kilometres) from the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean, on which it has a 75-mile seacoast, to the Niger River, which forms part of Benin’s northern border with Niger. Benin…
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