Encyclopedia of Africa South of the SaharaArranged alphabetically. In addition to biographies, extensive country information (primarily postindependence), and historical events, the encyclopedia treats general topics in articles such as agriculture, political systems, and religion and ritual. |
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administration Afri agricultural Arabic areas Bantu Bantu languages became BIBLIOGRAPHY Botswana British centers central Africa century Christian church civil coast colonial communities Congo continued Côte d'Ivoire countries crops cultural customary law domestic early East eastern economic Egypt elections Equatorial Eritrea established Ethiopia ethnic groups European export famine forest French gender Ghana Gikuyu Guinea Hausa household human important independence indigenous institutions Islamic Kenya king kingdom kinship labor land languages leaders Lesotho Liberia linguistic London major marriage matrilineal ment migration modern Muslim Nigeria nineteenth northern parties percent period political population Portuguese postcolonial precolonial production region ritual River role rule rulers rural Rwanda Saharan schools Senegal slaves social Somalia South Africa southern Africa structure studies sub-Saharan Africa Sudan Swahili Tanzania tion trade traditional Uganda urban West Africa western Africa women Zaire Zambia Zimbabwe