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Emory University jpool@emory.edu Edna Bay discusses the role of eunuchs in precolonial Dahomey (a non-Islamic setting, though not without Islamic influences), and more particularly the royal palace at Abomey, in her book _Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey_ (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998). She also refers to the influence of their use in Oyo as described by, among others, Robin Law, _The Oyo Empire, C.1600-C.1836 : A West African Imperialism in the Era of the Altantic Slave Trade_ (Oxford: Claredon Press, 1977).
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