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Dyula people, the Glossary

The Dyula (Dioula or Juula) are a Mande ethnic group inhabiting several West African countries, including Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Burkina Faso.^[1]

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Ethnic groups in Burkina Faso
Ethnic groups in Guinea
Ethnic groups in Ivory Coast
Ethnic groups in Mali
Ethnic groups in Senegal
Mandé people
West African people

Al-Hajj Salim Suwari

Sheikh Al-Hajj Salim Suwari was a 13th-century West African Soninke karamogo (Islamic scholar) who focused on the responsibilities of Muslim minorities residing in a non-Muslim society.

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Alassane Ouattara

Alassane Dramane Ouattara (born 1 January 1942) is an Ivorian politician and economist who has been President of Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) since 2010.

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Almami

Almami (المامي; Also: Almamy, Almaami) was the regnal name of Tukulor monarchs from the eighteenth century through the first half of the twentieth century.

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Alpha Blondy

Seydou Koné (born January 1, 1953, in Dimbokro), better known by his stage name Alpha Blondy, is an Ivorian reggae singer and international recording artist.

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Amadou Ouattara

Amadou Ouattara (born 30 December 1990) is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays for Thai League 1 club Chonburi as a winger.

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Amadou Touré

Amadou Touré (born September 27, 1982) is a Burundian-Burkinabé former footballer who last played in Luxembourg.

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Amulet

An amulet, also known as a good luck charm or phylactery, is an object believed to confer protection upon its possessor.

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Animism

Animism (from meaning 'breath, spirit, life') is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.

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The Asante, also known as Ashanti in English, are part of the Akan ethnic group and are native to the Ashanti Region of modern-day Ghana. Dyula people and Asante people are ethnic groups in Ghana and west African people.

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Bambara language

Bambara, also known as Bamana (N'Ko script: ߓߡߊߣߊ߲) or Bamanankan (N'Ko script: ߓߡߊߣߊ߲ߞߊ߲; Arabic script: بَمَنَنكَن), is a lingua franca and national language of Mali spoken by perhaps 14 million people, natively by 4.2 million Bambara people and about 10 million second-language users.

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Bambara people

The Bambara (Bamana or ߓߊ߲ߡߊߣߊ߲ Banmana) are a Mandé ethnic group native to much of West Africa, primarily southern Mali, Ghana, Guinea, Burkina Faso and Senegal. Dyula people and Bambara people are ethnic groups in Mali and west African people.

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Begho

Begho was a city located in Ghana, located just south of its successor community, Hani.

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Berbers

Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also called by their endonym Amazigh or Imazighen, are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Arab migrations to the Maghreb. Dyula people and Berbers are ethnic groups in Burkina Faso and ethnic groups in Mali.

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Bondoukou

Bondoukou (var. Bonduku, Bontuku) is a city in northeastern Ivory Coast, 420 km northeast of Abidjan.

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Bono state

Bono State (or Bonoman) was a trading state created by the Bono people, located in what is now southern Ghana.

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Brill Publishers

Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.

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Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa.

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Casamance

Casamance (Casamance; Wolof: Kasamansa; Kasamansa; Casamansa or Casamança) is the area of Senegal south of the Gambia, including the Casamance River.

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Caste

A caste is a fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification: a caste system.

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Côte d'Ivoire

Côte d'Ivoire, also known as Ivory Coast and officially known as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa.

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Chinguetti

Chinguetti (translit) is a ksar and a medieval trading center in northern Mauritania, located on the Adrar Plateau east of Atar.

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Christian Manfredini

Christian José Manfredini Sisostri (born 1 May 1975) is an Ivorian retired footballer who played as a left midfielder or left winger.

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Clan

A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent.

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Cowrie

Cowrie or cowry is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails in the family Cypraeidae.

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Currency

A currency is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins.

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Cyrille Bayala

Cyrille Bayala (born 24 May 1996) is a Burkinabé professional footballer who plays as a winger for club Ajaccio and the Burkina Faso national team.

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Dabakala

Dabakala is a town in northeast Ivory Coast.

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Dagomba people

The Dagbamba or Dagomba are an ethnic group of Ghana, and Togo. Dyula people and Dagomba people are ethnic groups in Ghana.

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Dakar

Dakar (Ndakaaru) is the capital and largest city of Senegal.

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Dawah

(دعوة,, "invitation", also spelt dâvah,,, or dakwah) is the act of inviting people to Islam.

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Djenné

Djenné (Jɛ̀nɛ́; also known as Djénné, Jenné, and Jenne) is a Songhai town and urban commune in the Inland Niger Delta region of central Mali.

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Dyula language

Dyula (or Jula, Dioula, Julakan ߖߎ߬ߟߊ߬ߞߊ߲) is a language of the Mande language family spoken mainly in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Mali, and also in some other countries, including Ghana, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Ethnicity

An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.

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Foreign policy

Foreign policy, also known as external policy, is the set of strategies and actions a state employs in its interactions with other states, unions, and international entities.

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Fortune-telling

Fortune telling is the unproven spiritual practice of predicting information about a person's life.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Gao

Gao, or Gawgaw/Kawkaw, is a city in Mali and the capital of the Gao Region.

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Ghana

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa.

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Gonja people

Gonja (also Ghanjawiyyu, endonym Ngbanya) are an ethnic group that live in Ghana. Dyula people and Gonja people are ethnic groups in Ghana.

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Guinea

Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa.

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Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau (Guiné-Bissau; script; Mandinka: ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߫ ߓߌߛߊߥߏ߫ Gine-Bisawo), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (República da Guiné-Bissau), is a country in West Africa that covers with an estimated population of 2,026,778.

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Gulf of Guinea

The Gulf of Guinea is the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean from Cape Lopez in Gabon, north and west to Cape Palmas in Liberia.

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Hadith

Hadith (translit) or Athar (أثر) is a form of Islamic oral tradition containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the prophet Muhammad.

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Hajj

Hajj (translit; also spelled Hadj, Haj or Haji) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims.

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Hausa Kingdoms

Hausa Kingdoms, also known as Hausa Kingdom or Hausaland, was a collection of states ruled by the Hausa people, before the Fulani jihad.

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Herzliya

Herzliya (הֶרְצְלִיָּה /; Hirtsiliyā) is an affluent city in the central coast of Israel, at the northern part of the Tel Aviv District, known for its robust start-up and entrepreneurial culture.

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Imam

Imam (إمام,;: أئمة) is an Islamic leadership position.

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Institute of African Studies

The Institute of African Studies, on the Anne Jiagee Road on the campus of the University of Ghana at Legon, is an interdisciplinary research institute in the humanities and social sciences.

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Isnad

In the Islamic study of hadith, an isnād (chain of transmitters) refers to a list of people who passed on a tradition, from the original authority to whom the tradition is attributed to, to the present person reciting or compiling that tradition.

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Issouf Ouattara

Issouf Ouattara (born 7 October 1988) is a Burkinabé professional footballer who plays as a forward.

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Ivor Wilks

Professor Emeritus Ivor G. Wilks (19 July 1928 – 7 October 2014), Starr FM.

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Jakhanke

The Jakhanke -- also spelled Jahanka, Jahanke, Jahanque, Jahonque, Diakkanke, Diakhanga, Diakhango, Dyakanke, Diakhanké, Diakanké, or Diakhankesare -- are a Manding-speaking ethnic group in the Senegambia region, often classified as a subgroup of the larger Soninke. Dyula people and Jakhanke are ethnic groups in Burkina Faso, ethnic groups in Mali, ethnic groups in Senegal and Mandé people.

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Jihad

Jihad (jihād) is an Arabic word which literally means "exerting", "striving", or "struggling", especially with a praiseworthy aim.

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Jola people

The Jola or Diola (endonym: Ajamat) are an ethnic group found in Senegal, the Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau. Dyula people and Jola people are ethnic groups in Senegal.

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Kalpi Ouattara

Kalpi Ouattara (born 29 December 1998) is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a left-back.

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Kankan

Kankan (Mandingo: Kánkàn; N’ko: ߞߊ߲ߞߊ߲߫) is the largest city in Guinea in land area, and the third largest in population, with a population of 198,013 people as of 2020.

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Karamogo

The Karamogo were the scholar class among the peaceful Dyula traders of Western Africa, of which Al-Hajj Salim Suwari was a prominent member. Dyula people and Karamogo are ethnic groups in Ghana, ethnic groups in Guinea, ethnic groups in Mali and ethnic groups in Senegal.

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Kintampo District

Kintampo District is a former district that was located in Brong-Ahafo Region (now currently in Bono East Region), Ghana.

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Kolo Touré

Kolo Abib Touré (born 19 March 1981) is an Ivorian professional football manager and former player.

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Kong Empire

The Kong Empire (1710–1898), also known as the Wattara Empire or Ouattara Empire for its founder, was a pre-colonial African Muslim state centered in northeastern Ivory Coast that also encompassed much of present-day Burkina Faso.

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Kong, Ivory Coast

Kong, also known as Kpon, is a town in northern Ivory Coast.

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Madrasa

Madrasa (also,; Arabic: مدرسة, pl. مدارس), sometimes transliterated as madrasah or madrassa, is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whether for elementary education or higher learning.

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Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa.

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Mali Empire

The Mali Empire (Manding: MandéKi-Zerbo, Joseph: UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. IV, Abridged Edition: Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century, p. 57. University of California Press, 1997. or Manden Duguba; Mālī) was an empire in West Africa from 1226 to 1670.

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Mandé peoples

The Mandé peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of native African ethnic groups who speak Mande languages. Dyula people and Mandé peoples are Mandé people.

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Manding languages

The Manding languages (sometimes spelt Manden) are a dialect continuum within the Niger-Congo family spoken in West Africa.

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Mandinka language

The Mandinka language (Ajami: مَانْدِينْكَا كَانْجَوْ), or Mandingo, is a Mande language spoken by the Mandinka people of Guinea, northern Guinea-Bissau, the Casamance region of Senegal, and in The Gambia where it is one of the principal languages.

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Mandinka people

The Mandinka or Malinke are a West African ethnic group primarily found in southern Mali, The Gambia, southern Senegal and eastern Guinea. Dyula people and Mandinka people are ethnic groups in Burkina Faso, ethnic groups in Guinea, ethnic groups in Ivory Coast, ethnic groups in Mali, ethnic groups in Senegal and west African people.

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Mauritania

Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara.

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Mecca

Mecca (officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam.

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Millet

Millets are a highly varied group of small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food.

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Modibo Sagnan

Modibo Sagnan (born 14 April 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Ligue 1 club Montpellier.

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Mohamed Ouattara (born 28 June 1999) is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Saudi Arabian club Al-Ain.

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Mohamed Cheik Ali Touré (born 30 March 1997), also known as Mozino, is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays for Portuguese club Trofense as a right winger.

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Muhammad

Muhammad (570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.

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Muslims

Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.

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Nehemia Levtzion

Nehemia Levtzion (נחמיה לבציון; November 24, 1935 — August 15, 2003) was an Israeli scholar of African history, Near East, Islamic, and African studies, and the President of the Open University of Israel from 1987 to 1992 and the Executive Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute from 1994 to 1997.

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Niger

Niger or the Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a country in West Africa.

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Niger River

The Niger River is the main river of West Africa, extending about. Its drainage basin is in area. Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in south-eastern Guinea near the Sierra Leone border. It runs in a crescent shape through Mali, Niger, on the border with Benin and then through Nigeria, discharging through a massive delta, known as the Niger Delta, into the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Nobility

Nobility is a social class found in many societies that have an aristocracy.

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Nomad

Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas.

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North Africa

North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.

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Northwestern University

Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois.

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Ohio University

Ohio University (Ohio or OU) is a public research university with its main campus in Athens, Ohio.

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Ouadane

Ouadane or Wādān (وادان) is a small town in the desert region of central Mauritania, situated on the southern edge of the Adrar Plateau, 93 km northeast of Chinguetti.

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Oualata

Oualata or Walata (ولاتة) (also Biru in 17th century chronicles) is a small oasis town in southeast Mauritania, located at the eastern end of the Aoukar basin.

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Paganism

Paganism (from classical Latin pāgānus "rural", "rustic", later "civilian") is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, or ethnic religions other than Judaism.

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Paramount chief

A paramount chief is the English-language designation for a King/Queen or the highest-level political leader in a regional or local polity or country administered politically with a chief-based system.

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Patriarchy

Patriarchy is a social system in which positions of dominance and privilege are held by men.

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Patrilineality

Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through their father's lineage.

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Philip D. Curtin

Philip Dearmond Curtin (May 22, 1922 – June 4, 2009) was a Professor Emeritus of Johns Hopkins University and historian on Africa and the Atlantic slave trade.

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Polygamy

Polygamy (from Late Greek πολυγαμία, "state of marriage to many spouses") is the practice of marrying multiple spouses.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Qadi

A qāḍī (Qāḍī; otherwise transliterated as qazi, kadi, kadhi, kazi, or gazi) is the magistrate or judge of a sharīʿa court, who also exercises extrajudicial functions such as mediation, guardianship over orphans and minors, and supervision and audition of public works.

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Religious tolerance

Religious tolerance or religious toleration may signify "no more than forbearance and the permission given by the adherents of a dominant religion for other religions to exist, even though the latter are looked on with disapproval as inferior, mistaken, or harmful".

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Republic of Upper Volta

The Republic of Upper Volta (République de Haute-Volta) was a landlocked West African country established on 11 December 1958 as a self-governing state within the French Community.

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Sahara

The Sahara is a desert spanning across North Africa.

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Sahel

The Sahel region or Sahelian acacia savanna is a biogeographical region in Africa.

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Samori Ture

Samory Toure (– June 2, 1900), also known as Samori Toure, Samory Touré, or Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure, was a Mandinka Muslim cleric, military strategist, and founder of the Wassoulou Empire, an Islamic empire that was stretched across present-day north and eastern Guinea, north-eastern Sierra Leone, southern Mali, northern Côte d'Ivoire and part of southern Burkina Faso.

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Savanna

A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.

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Senegambia

The Senegambia (other names: Senegambia region or Senegambian zone,Barry, Boubacar, Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade, (Editors: David Anderson, Carolyn Brown; trans. Ayi Kwei Armah; contributors: David Anderson, American Council of Learned Societies, Carolyn Brown, University of Michigan. Digital Library Production Service, Christopher Clapham, Michael Gomez, Patrick Manning, David Robinson, Leonardo A.

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Sharia

Sharia (sharīʿah) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and hadith.

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Sheikh

Sheikh (shaykh,, شُيُوخ, shuyūkh) is an honorific title in the Arabic language, literally meaning "elder".

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Sikasso

Sikasso (Bambara: ߛߌߞߊߛߏ tr. Sikaso) is a city in the south of Mali and the capital of the Sikasso Cercle and the Sikasso Region.

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Soninke people

The Soninke people are a West African Mande-speaking ethnic group found in Mali, southern Mauritania, eastern Senegal, The Gambia, and Guinea (especially Fouta Djallon). Dyula people and Soninke people are ethnic groups in Burkina Faso, ethnic groups in Ghana, ethnic groups in Mali, ethnic groups in Senegal, Mandé people and west African people.

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Sudan

Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.

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Sudano-Sahelian architecture

Sudano-Sahelian architecture refers to a range of similar indigenous architectural styles common to the African peoples of the Sahel and Sudanian grassland (geographical) regions of West Africa, south of the Sahara, but north of the fertile forest regions of the coast.

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.

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Supply and demand

In microeconomics, supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market.

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Syracuse University

Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States.

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Tafsir

Tafsir (tafsīr; Explanation) refers to exegesis, usually of the Quran.

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Theology

Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity.

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Thomas Lionel Hodgkin

Thomas Lionel Hodgkin (3 April 1910 – 25 March 1982) was an English Marxist historian of Africa, who was described by The Times at his death of having done "more than anyone to establish the serious study of African history" in the UK.

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Trading diaspora

Trading diasporas is a term coined by Philip D. Curtin to mean: "communities of merchants living among aliens in associated networks".

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Trans-Saharan trade

Trans-Saharan trade is trade between sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa that requires travel across the Sahara.

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Treasury

A treasury is either.

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Ulama

In Islam, the ulama (the learned ones; singular ʿālim; feminine singular alimah; plural aalimath), also spelled ulema, are scholars of Islamic doctrine and law.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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University of California Press

The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Ghana

The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra, Ghana.

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Vincent Angban

Vincent Atchouailou de Paul Angban (born 2 February 1985) is an Ivorian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Wangara, Burkina Faso

Wangara is a village in the Tiankoura Department of Bougouriba Province in south-western Burkina Faso.

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Wassoulou

Wassoulou is a cultural area and historical region in the Wassoulou River Valley of West Africa.

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West Africa

West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.

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