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What is a fon?

What is a fon? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A chieftain or king of a region of Cameroon.
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The Asante, Ewe, Fon and Fante peoples provided the bulk of imports into Barbados.
I know that the Fon tribe are inclined to construct interminable systems of analogies between events or between people.
In the early 1900s, the Bafut fought several wars with the German colonizers and their allies, ending in 1907 with the exile of the fon of that time.
Meanwhile captive Fon dignitaries, hoping to secure a French withdrawal, suggested Behanzin's brother Goutchile as a puppet king.
For in talking about his native Fon tribe, Olympe is talking about language in general and about writing novels in particular.
He painted Avlekete, the Fon spirit of the sea, outside, next to the wall of juxtaposed African and African Diaspora Vodun symbols.

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