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 ====== Ahangbe ======
-Agbidinoukoun's barebones introduction of Ahangbe was con-
+Agbidinoukoun's barebones introduction of Ahangbe was considerably augmented in 1949 by Anatole Coissy (a/k/a Coyssi), a
-siderably augmented in 1949 by Anatole Coissy (a/k/a Coyssi), a
 Dahomean school director, writing in Etudes Dahomeennes. He said
 that on Akaba's death (generally dated to 1708), Ahangbe was ap-
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 throne." (13) Source: [[Alpern, Stanley B.]]
+This is further supported by Suzanne Blier who confirms that Tassi-Hangbe (name variation) was a ruler.
+"Whatever the answer, today it is Huegbadja's wife's tohuio, Aligbonu, who
+is worshipped by this king's descendants as the ancestress of the royal
+dynasty, for she is the tohujo of his children, the early rulers Akaba, Tassi-
+Hangbe and Agadja" (Blier 409).
+[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangbe|Wikipedia Link]]

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