| LC control no. | n 81030847 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Pokou, Queen of the Baoulé, 1700-approximately 1760 |
| Variant(s) | Abla Pokou, Queen of the Baoulé, 1700-approximately 1760 Pokou, Queen of the Baoulé, 1700-ca. 1760 Poku, Queen of the Baoulé, 1700-approximately 1760 |
| Associated country | Côte d'Ivoire |
| Birth date | 1700 |
| Death date | 1760~ |
| Place of birth | Kumasi (Ghana) |
| Profession or occupation | Queens Kings and rulers |
| Found in | Loucou, J.-N. La reine Pokou, c1977 (subj.) t.p. (la reine Pokou, fondatrice du royaume baoulé) p. 13, etc. (Queen Abla Pokou, lived between the Volta and Bandama rivers in 17-18th cent.; d. ca. 1760 in Niamonou; b. 1700) Ajayi, J. F. A. Hist. of W. Afr., 1974, v. 2: index (Poku, Queen of Asante) Wikipedia, July 23, 2015 (Queen Pokou, or Awura, Aura, or Abla Pokou (b. in Kumasi, Ghana, c. 1730 - 1750) was Queen and founder of the Baoulé tribe in West Africa, in what is today the Ivory Coast; she ruled over a branch of the powerful Ashanti Empire as it expanded westward, also known as the Akan people, ancestors of the largest tribe of modern Ivory Coast) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Pokou> |
| Not found in | Encyc. Brit., 14th and 15th ed.; Lipschutz, M. P. Dict. of Afr. hist. biog., 1978. |
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