African Resources Thread

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Ashanti kingdom in 1886

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Map of Ghana after the crushing of the Juaben Revolt

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Map of showing British invasion columns and major battles

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Map of Ghana after the Treaty of Fomena (1874)

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The maximum extent of the Ashanti offensive in 1873

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Ghana - 1872 (After the sale of the Dutch Gold Coast + Bofour's Campaigns

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Ghana - 1870

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Map of Ghana in 1868

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The Ashanti and their Neighbors (1850)

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Map of Ghana after the First-Anglo Ashanti War

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Map of Ashanti and British troop movements in the Nsamankow campaign of 1822-1823

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Map of the Ashanti Empire, its clients, and its road networks in 1820


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The Ashanti Empire at its height in 1818, featuring roads.

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The Kongo kingdom and its six main provinces (Mpemba, Nsundi, Mbata, Soyo, Mbamba, Mpangu) in the Sixteenth to seventeenth centuries.

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South-central Africa in the Later Iron Age

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Central Africa, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries

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1. Peopling and Early State Formation

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2. Economic Centers

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3. Situation 1550

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4. Situation 1650
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5. Expansion of the Lunda Empire
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6. Situation 1750
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7. Situation 1850
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Language and State, c. 1650

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1648

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1648

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1648

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1650(basically just a reworking of 1648)

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1711

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1711

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1754

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1770

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1770

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1864

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Largely from Wikipedia and One from Crazy Boris.
 
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Various Angola Maps
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16th and 17th Century Kongo
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Angola 1850 - 1870
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Ngoni Kingdoms 1875
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Luangwa Chiefdoms
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Chewa Kingdoms
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Central Africa 1800 - 1880
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Zimbabwe states/cultures 900 AD - 1450 AD
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Central Africa 1600 - 1800
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Inner Angola Kingdoms
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Companies in the Congo Free State
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Pygmy groups in Central Africa
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Simplified Congo Kingdoms
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Congo States 1900
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Congo Military Campaigns 1890 - 1895
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Non-European states at around the Congo Free State ceding
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Bobandana region
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Bahavu Chiefdom in 1935
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Kalehe Territory
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Bahavu Territory
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Tyo Kingdom
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Kongo Kingdom
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Guinean West Central African States in 1625
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"Cumulatively referred to as Kuba, the people in fact comprise unique independent chieftains. Though culturally and linguistically similar, each is an entity to itself. Joseph Cornets tribal map (above) was published in Art Royal Kuba - page 15. It details political groupings aligned to the Bushoong."
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Luba Subgroups
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Malawi Chiefdoms
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Northern Rhodesia native and tribal reserves
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Administrative divisions of Rhodesia-Nyasaland
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Kivu Chiefdoms
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The Pink Map
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Trusts of the Belgian Congo
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Anglo-German division of Portuguese colonies in Africa
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Map 5-I: Native administration in South Darfur, 1928. Source: Private papers of Omar Ali al-Ghali, wakeel nazir of the Habbaniyya tribe
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Map 3-4: Routes in Dar Masalit
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Map 3-3: Seasonal migrations of the Baggara tribes in Southern Darfur
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Map 3-2: Migrations of Nomadic Tribes, Northern and Western Darfur
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Map No 2-I. Fur Tribe diar (hawakeer) in 1939. Source: Sudan Central Archives, Darfur Province file 2/37/288
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Map 10. The Original Cokwe Territory: Peoples, Places and Trade routes before 1850
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Map 11. Maximum Cokwe Expansion: Peoples, Places and Trade-Routes, c. 1890
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Central Africa Republic Civil War (as of 23rd of May 2023)
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Chieftains of the Tonga Plateau
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West Central Africa Ethnic groups
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Map of Gabon and its kingdoms right before the colonialization by the French, showing tribal/ethnic migration inland too (in french) (may be inaccurate in some places)
Pink: Mpongwe confederacy
Yellow: Kingdom of Orungu
Light green: Kingdom of Nkomi
Orange: Ngubi
Dark green: Kingdom of Loango
Date: 1550 A.D. to 1883 A.D., 16th century A.D., 19th century A.D. (description kindly "borrowed" from RETF)

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Nations of the Ougoue trade in the early 19th Century
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16th - 17th Century Gabon

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Internals of Shiiluk Kingdom
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Native reserves Zambia 1937
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Close up Sultanates of Bangassou
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Some dates of conquest in Central African Republic
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caravan routes, late 19th century
https://www.persee.fr/doc/cea_0008-0055_1976_num_16_63_2519 Article about the babalia kingdom in chad (french)
https://www.persee.fr/doc/outre_0300-9513_1981_num_68_250_2313 Article about the Bedaya (sara) kingdom(s?) in chad (French)
Map of the sara homeland
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Map of Sara kingdoms/subdivisions
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The Peoples of Eastern Angola around 1850
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'Zappo-Zap Migration from M'Penge' baed on 'La region Songte avant 1887', in Paul immermans, 'Les Sapo Sapo pres de Luluabourg', Africa-Tervuren, Volume 8, Issue 1.2, (1962), p. 30.
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'Luba Empire: late eighteenth century to the 1860s', in Thomas Q. Reefe, The Rainbow and the Kings: A History of the Luba Empire to 1891 (University of California Press: Berkeley, 1981), p. 116.
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Conquest of Bailundu
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Predominent Of Angolan Independentist group by region in the latter phase of the Coloniak war
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Luba Empire: Late Eighteenth Century to the 1860s', in Thomas Q. Reefe, The Rainbow and the Kings: A History of the Luba Empire to 1891. (University of California Press: Berkeley, 1981) p. 116.​

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  • 'Zappo-Zap Migration from M'Penge'. Based on 'La region Songhe Avant 1887', In Paul Timmermans 'Les Sap Sapo pres de Luluabourg'. Africa-Tervuren, Volume 8, Issue 1/2, (1962), p. 30.​

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  • The People of Eastern Angola Around 1850​

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  • Caravane routes, late 19th century​

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  • 16th-17th century gabon​

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  • Nations of the ougoue trade in the early 19th century

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  • Some dates of the conquest of CAR
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Close up of the sultanates of Bangassou
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  • Native reserves Zambia 1937​

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Second level subdivisions of the Shilluk Kingdoms
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Economic Specialisation in mid-19th century Equatorial Africa
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The Cuanza Basin, ca. 1575 - 1600
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Civil war and banditry in Kongo, 1780s.
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"West Central Africa c. 1500" by Kathryn J. Miller Dates: 1500 1500s 16th century Polities: Kongo Loango Kakongo Ngoyo Mpanzalumbu Vungu Mazinga Mpemba Kasi Lemba Bula Sanga Nsi Kwilu Mbata Npangu Nsundi Kundi Kongo Dia Nlaza Soyo Kiowa Kandongo Matadi Vunda Nzolo Zombo Nkubu Mbamba Mpemba Wembo Wandu "Chamgalla" Mbwela Ndongo Tags: Central Africa DRC Democratic Republic of the Congo Zaire Angola Congo Gabon African Sub-Saharan Africa https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/747171746335031417/769592154875101184/unknown.png
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"The kingdom of Kongo in the seventeenth century" Dates: 1600 1600s 17th century Polities: Kongo Sonyo Undi Ns Mpangu Mbata Mpemba Wembo Wandu Mbamba Angola Matamba Tags: Central Africa DRC Democratic Republic of the Congo Zaire Angola Congo Gabon African Sub-Saharan Africa https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/747171746335031417/769592802915909632/unknown.png
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Chewa Expansion c. 1500 - 1790s

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https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29031/1/10731125.pdf The Bimbi Cult in Southern Malawi
Archaeobotanical Investigations of the Iron Age Lundu State, Malawi https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/585602668085510145/822628868535222312/ChrisJStevensSa_2013_Chapter16Archaeobotan_ArchaeologyOfAfricanP.pdf

Darfur-Wadai
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Sultanate of Dar Masalit
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Bagirmi
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Bagirmi and neighbors
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https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.72620/page/n3/mode/2up
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kingdoms of zambia (borders aren't perfect) https://awindowonzambia.com/kingdoms-of-zambia/
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Article about the babalia kingdom in chad (french)

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https://web.archive.org/web/20180203191542/http://goto.glocalnet.net/mahopapers/nuglonline.pdf resource on bantu languages locations

Map of Malawi showing areas of Chikunda influence (19th century)
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Chikunda conquest states, 1880s
Beti-Pahoun migrations
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Capuchin parishes in Soyo (province of Kongo), 17th century
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Nzebi Expansions
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Owen J. M. Kalinga (1984). Towards a Better Understanding of Socio-Economic Change in 18th- and 19th-Century Ungonde.
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Main axis of conquest of angola with dates of battle and occupation
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Economic map of Angola 1910 (lots of ressources like diamond or oil weren't exploited yet, and slave labour was still widely used for Sao tomé's plantations, in angolan plantation or as porters) 5: Sugarcane 6: Coffee 7: Slaves 8: Slaves & Rubber 9: Cotton 10: Fishing ports
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Ethnic map of Angola (60s)

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Soil, Concession and land ownership maps of colonial Zambia
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Barotseland at the end of Lewanika's reign (1900s)
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Ethnic groups of the Tabwa area

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Geography, Ethnography and Economics of Southern angola, late 19th to early 20th


Northern Rhodesia native reserves and tribal areas (1934)
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Akan, Ge, and Ewe
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Yoruba Trade Routes
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Benin Expansion
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Baule Trade Patterns
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Benin
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Benin
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Benin 1400s
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Bassar
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Bassar Iron Trade
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Bornu
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Bornu Salt
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Kanem-Bornu and neighbors
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Borgu Kingdom
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Dahomey and its conquest of Allada and Hueda
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Trade routes in Benue
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Bornu 1810
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Grassfields Ethnic
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Abutia (Abutia is a traditional area in Ghana with Teti, Agorve and Kloe)
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Abuja and Fulani Zazzau
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Gyaman Kingdom
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Gobir
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Nupe
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Bight of Benin 1840
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Burkina Faso in the 19th century
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Ivory Coast Ethnic
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Sokoto
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Dahomey Expansion
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Niger Delta City States
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Igbo groups
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Dutch gold Coast 1600s
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Edo groups
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Slave Coast Complexes
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Akan Frontier States
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Nupe Language Groups
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Gold Coast
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Gao Refromist Communities
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German Togoland Expedition
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Gold Coast
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Kom People migrations (Grasslands Kingdoms)
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Ashanti Gold Trade
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Grasslands Kingdoms, Kingdom of Kom
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Grasslands Kingdoms, Source: An Outline of the Traditional Political System of Bali-Nyonga (North West Cameroon)
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Igboland sub-cultures
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Igbo Trade Routes
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Igbo Centers
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Yoruba Frontier States
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Sahel 18th and 19th century
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Jula Population Centers
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Kanem-Bornu Empire 17th and 18th century
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Kanem-Bornu Empire 1570-1600
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Source.

Oyo Civil War 1816
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Oyo Civil War 1817
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Conflict Heat Map of 1817

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Oyo Civil War 1818
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Conflict Heat Map of 1818

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Oyo Civil War 1819
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Conflict Heat Map of 1819

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