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By Eric J. Arnould, Akintola J. G. Wyse, Wilfred A. Ndongko, E. Nolue Emenanjo, Edmund Ilogu, and Ogbu U. Kalu
In this paper I will discuss the often Dahomean dokpe in relation to certain key evolutionary changes in Dahomean social organization which have occured during a three hundred year period.