African Traditional Architecture: An Historical and Geographical Perspective |
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I 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 Bandiagara escarpment Basin Benin buildings Cameroon carved cattle kraal central centre Chad Chagga Chapter chief's house chiefs common conical constructed courtyard decoration Djenne Dogon domes door entrance Ethiopia example 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 mosque Mountains Mousgoum mud bricks mud walls Ngoni Niger nineteenth century northern Nigeria Nuba Nuba mountains Nupe Nyakusa palace palm fronds pastoralists pattern photograph shows pillars plastered poles puddled mud rainfall Rhodesia River Round plan Ruanda settlements shrines similar sometimes southern square stone style Sudan surrounded Swahili Tanzania technique terraces thatched roofs Tikar Timbuktu trade traditional Tuareg Uganda vaulted village wattle West Africa western Nigeria wife's room wooden Yoruba Yorubaland Zaïre Zaria Zimbabwe