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- 2. the largest and last of the three major pre-colonial empires to emerge in West Africa
- 7. relating to or based on relationship to the father or descent through the male line.
- 9. a natural object or animal that is believed by a particular society to have spiritual significance and that is adopted by it as an emblem.
- 10. was a prince and founder of the Mali Empire.
- 12. (among North American Indian peoples of the northwest coast) an opulent ceremonial feast at which possessions are given away or destroyed to display wealth or enhance prestige.
- 13. of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line.
- 16. was an African kingdom in Zimbabwe, which expanded to what is now modern-day Mozambique.
- 17. The sunset Islamic prayer.
- 18. a French-speaking West African nation, is a birthplace of the vodun (or “voodoo”)
- 20. a member of a Berber Muslim movement and dynasty that conquered the Spanish and North African empire of the Almoravids in the 12th century.
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- 1. a Bantu language widely used as a lingua franca in East Africa and having official status in several countries.
- 3. s a medieval city in the south-eastern hills of the modern country of Zimbabwe, near Lake Mutirikwi and the town of Masvingo.
- 4. wrote one of the world's most famous travel logs, the Riḥlah
- 5. lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry or pedigree.
- 6. have minimal or no government; no one has authority to make decisions about the rules and enforce these on others
- 8. was the ninth mansa of the Mali Empire, which reached its territorial peak during his reign
- 11. a member of a people of northern Nigeria and adjacent regions.
- 13. is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali is the eighth-largest country in Africa,
- 14. a member of a federation of Muslim Berber peoples that established an empire in Morocco, Algeria, and Spain in the 11th century. They were in turn driven out by the Almohads.
- 15. is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south,
- 19. West African ethnic group that mainly inhabit parts of Nigeria
