Homelands

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 HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION The Kingdom of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), the smallest of three former British High Commission Territories in southern Africa, is an independent state located...

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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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A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) RC, formerly known as Zaire, is located in Central Africa. To the north, it is bordered...

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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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HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION By:Dr. Eugenio Nkogo Ondo Equatorial Guinea is the modern name given to the former Spanish colony known as the Equatorial Region of Spain....

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