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ETHIOPIA
ETHIOPIA A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION by Richard Pankhurst Our earliest glimpses of Ethiopia’s history go back over three millennia. The Pharaohs of ancient Egypt, as is
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SOUTH AFRICA
A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION The Republic of South Africa occupies the southern-most area of the African continent, comprising 435,868 square miles. It is about half the
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LESOTHO
HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION Lesotho is a small, mountainous country located on the Drakensberg escarpment on the eastern edge of the southern African plateau. With a territory
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GHANA
A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION Ghana is the name which was assumed at independence on March 6, 1957, by the former British Crown Colony of the Gold
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ALGERIA
ABOUT ALGERIA By Encyclopaedia Africana Project Contributors Editing Info & History Location map in Africa Naional symbol(s) Fennec fox, Wall iris; national colors: green, white,
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MASSAIA, G.
CARDINAL GUGLIEMO MASSAIA Cardinal Gugliemo Massaia (June 8, 1809-August 6, 1889), born Lorenzo Antonio Massaia, was an Italian Catholic missionary who worked for 35 years