Dahomey Bariba Tribal Warriors Cavalry stamp 1973 A-19

Description

Good rare stamp.
The
Bariba
people, self designation Baatonu (plural Baatombu), are the principal inhabitants of Borgou and Alibori Departments, Benin, and cofounders of the Borgu kingdom of what is now northeast Benin and west-central Nigeria. In Nigeria, they are found spread between western Kwara State and the Borgu section of Niger State. There are perhaps a million Bariba, 70% of them in Benin, where they are the fourth largest ethnic group and comprise approximately 1/11 of the population (9.2%). The Bariba are concentrated primarily in the north-east of the country, especially around the city of Nikki, which is considered the traditional Bariba capital. At the end of the 18th century they became independent from the Yoruba of Oyo and formed several kingdoms in the Borgou region . The colonization of Benin (then
Dahomey
) by the French at the end of the 19th century, and the imposition of an Anglo-French artificial border, ended Bariba trade in the region.