. . . "Voice of the leopard : African secret societies and Cuba" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Electronic books" . "Electronic books"@en . . "The voice of the leopard : African secret societies and Cuba" . "Voice of the Leopard African Secret Societies and Cuba" . "In Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, Ivor L. Miller shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, no large kingdoms controlled Nigeria and Cameroon's multilingual Cross River basin. Instead, each settlement had its own lodge of the initiation society called Ékpè, or \"leopard,\" which was the highest indigenous authority. Ékpè lodges ruled local communities while also managing regional and long-distance trade. Cross River Africans, enslaved and forcibly brought to."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Livres électroniques" . . . . . "Voice of the leopard African secret societies and Cuba" . "Voice of the leopard African secret societies and Cuba"@en . . . . "Secret societies Cuba." . . "Schwarze." . . "Geschichte (umfassend)" . . "Cuba." . . "Cuba" . "Schwarze." . . "Blacks Social life and customs." . . "Blacks Social life and customs" . "Musique Cuba." . . "Miller, Ivor L." . . "Geheimbund." . . "Geheimbund" . "Afro-Américain (peuple) société secrète Cuba." . . "Afrikaner." . . "Kuba." . . "Kuba" . . . "Afrikaner." . . "Secret societies." . . "Secret societies" . "Geschichte" . . "HISTORY Caribbean & West Indies Cuba." . . "Sociedad Abakuá (Cuba)" . . "Sociétés secrètes Afrique." . . "Noirs Cuba Moeurs et coutumes." . . "Geheimbund Schwarze Kuba Geschichte 19. Jh." . . "SOCIAL SCIENCE General." . . "Blacks Cuba Social life and customs." . . "Sociétés secrètes Cuba." . .