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Africa: Encyclopedia - Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30,370,000 km² (11,730,000 sq mi) includin...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - Politics
Africa - Precolonial Africa.
Africa - Colonial Africa.
Colonialism had a destabilizing effect on what had been a number of ethnic gro...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - Territories
Africa - Independent states.
East Africa
East Africa proper
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African Literature: Encyclopedia - African Literature
African literature generally refers to the novels, short stories, and poetry written by African writers during the 20th century. Most of ...
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Yoruba: Encyclopedia - Yoruba
The Yoruba (native name Yorùbá) are the largest single ethnic group in Nigeria. The Yoruba constitute approximately 24% percent of Nige...
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Afrocentrism: Encyclopedia - Afrocentrism
Afrocentrism is a worldview or ideology that focuses on the black people and their contributions. More particularly, it often seeks to e...
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Buganda: Encyclopedia - Buganda
Buganda is the kingdom of the 52 clans of the Baganda people, the largest of the traditional kingdoms in present-day Uganda. The three mi...
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Conservation Ethic: Encyclopedia - Conservation Ethic
The Conservation ethic is an ethic of resource use, allocation, exploitation, and protection. Its primary focus is upon maintaining the h...
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Algeria: Encyclopedia - Algeria
The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (Arabic: الجمهورية الجزائرية الديمقراطية الشعبية) , or Al...
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African Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - African Literature - Precolonial African Literature
Because literacy did not become widespread in Africa until the arrival of Christian missionaries in the 1800s, much of the precolonial Af...
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Cuisine Of South Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Cuisine Of South Africa - Indigenous Cookery
In the precolonial period indigenous cuisine was characterised by the use of a very wide range of fruits, nuts, bulbs, leaves and other p...
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Yoruba: Encyclopedia Ii - Yoruba - Yoruba Mythology
Yoruba mythology is sometimes claimed to be one of the world's oldest widely practised religions. It is a major religion in Africa, chief...
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Yoruba: Encyclopedia Ii - Yoruba - Culture
The Yorubas are one of the ethnic groups in Africa whose cultural heritage and legacy are recognizable in the Americas, despite the delib...
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Yoruba: Encyclopedia Ii - Yoruba - Culture
The Yorubas are one of the ethnic groups in Africa whose cultural heritage and legacy are recognizable in the Americas, despite the delib...
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Yoruba: Encyclopedia Ii - Yoruba - Yoruba Mythology
Yoruba mythology is sometimes claimed to be one of the world's oldest widely practised religions. It is a major religion in Africa, chief...
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Yoruba: Encyclopedia Ii - Yoruba - Precolonial Social Organization
Though monarchies were fairly common throughout the Yoruba-speaking region, they were not the only approach to government and social orga...
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Yoruba: Encyclopedia Ii - Yoruba - Precolonial Social Organization
Though monarchies were fairly common throughout the Yorùbá-speaking region, they were not the only approach to government and social or...
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Buganda: Encyclopedia Ii - Buganda - Culture
Authoritarian control is an important theme of Ganda culture. In precolonial times, obedience to the king was a matter of life and death....
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Democratic Republic Of The Congo: Encyclopedia Ii - Democratic Republic Of The Congo - Geography
The Congo is situated at the heart of the west-central portion of sub-Saharan Africa and is bounded by (Clockwise from the west) Angola, ...
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Conservation Ethic: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservation Ethic - History Of Biological Conservation
The origins of biological conservation can be traced to philosophical and religious beliefs about Man as a full part of Nature:
Taoist an...
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Algeria: Encyclopedia Ii - Algeria - Culture
Main article: Culture of Algeria
Modern Algerian literature, split between Arabic and French, has been strongly influenced by the country...
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Conservation Ethic: Encyclopedia Ii - Conservation Ethic - History Of Biological Conservation
The origins of biological conservation can be traced to philosophical and religious beliefs about Man as a full part of Nature:
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Canary Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Canary Islands - History
The Canary Islands have been known since antiquity. The peak of Teide on Tenerife can be seen on clear days from the African coast. It is...
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Canary Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Canary Islands - History
The Canary Islands have been known since antiquity. The peak of Teide on Tenerife can be seen on clear days from the African coast. It is...
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Buganda: Encyclopedia Ii - Buganda - History
Buganda - Pre-colonial and colonial Buganda.
Originally a vassal state of Bunyoro, Buganda grew rapidly in power in the eighteenth and ...
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Geography Of Ghana: Encyclopedia Ii - Geography Of Ghana - Geographical Regions
Ghana is characterized in general by low physical relief. Indeed, the Precambrian rock system that underlies most of the nation has been ...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - Demographics
Africans may be grouped according to whether they live north or south of the Sahara Desert; these groups are called North Africans and Su...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - History
Main article: History of Africa
Africa is home to the oldest inhabited territory on earth, with the human race originating from this cont...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - Demographics
Africans may be grouped according to whether they live north or south of the Sahara Desert; these groups are called North Africans and Su...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - Etymology
The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans, who used the name Africa terra — "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singul...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - Languages
Main article: African languages
By most estimates Africa contains well over a thousand languages. There are four major language families ...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - Culture
Rather than one culture, Africa has a number of cultures that overlap. The most conventional distinction is that between sub-Saharan Afri...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - Geography
Main article: Geography of Africa
Africa is the largest of the three great southward projections from the main mass of the Earth's surfac...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - History
Main article: History of Africa
Africa is home to the oldest inhabited territory on earth, with the human race originating from this cont...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - Economy
Main article: Economy of Africa
Africa is the world's poorest inhabited continent: the United Nations' Human Development Report 2003 (of ...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - Religion
Africans profess a wide variety of religious beliefs, with Christianity and Islam being the most widespread. Approximately 40% of all Afr...
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Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Africa - Territories
Africa - Independent states.
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