African Traditional Architecture: An Historical and Geographical Perspective |
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Introduction | 1 |
Ghana Ministry of Information 223 3023 | 3 |
Cornell University Press in Rigby P Cattle and Kinship among the Gogo | 4 |
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architecture Asante bamboo Bamileke Basin Benin Bornu Cameroon carved cattle kraal central centre Chad Chagga Chapter chief's house chiefs common conical constructed courtyard culture decoration Dinka Djenne Dogon domes door entrance Ethiopia example flat roofs forest framework free-standing Fulani Ghana granary grass Gwari Hausa Hausa town Hausaland hills homestead houses were built Ibo house impluvia impluvium interior Islam Kano Kenya Kilwa Kofar Kukawa Lake land live Mali Mangbettu Masai mats Mountains Mousgoum mud bricks mud walls Niger nineteenth century northern Nigeria Nuba Nuba mountains Nupe Nyakusa Oualata palace palm fronds pastoralists pattern photograph shows pillars plastered poles puddled mud Rectangular plan Rhodesia River Round plan Ruanda settlements shape similar sometimes southern square stone Sudan surrounded Swahili Tanzania technique terraces thatched thatched roofs Timbuktu trade traditional Tuareg Uganda Upper Niger vaulted village wattle West Africa wooden Yoruba Yorubaland Zaïre Zaria Zimbabwe Zulu