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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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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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A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION Sierra Leone is a small country, roughly circular in shape, and occupying the southwest coast of West Africa between 6° 55′ and...

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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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AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION The Republic of Botswana is situated on the southern slope of the great southern African plateau. Landlocked, about 220,000 square miles (569,000...

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by Richard Pankhurst Our earliest glimpses of Ethiopia’s history go back over three millennia. The Pharaohs of ancient Egypt, as is known from their inscriptions,...

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