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Asante empire

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Asante empire, Asante also spelled Ashanti, West African state that occupied what is now southern Ghana in the 18th and 19th centuries. Extending from the...
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Ghana Independence 1957

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After years of suffering under British colonial rule, Ghana, known as the Gold Coast, became the first African State to achieve independence in 1957.  Ghana...
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Joseph Jenkins Roberts

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Joseph Jenkins Roberts, (born March 15, 1809, Petersburg, Va., U.S.—died Feb. 24, 1876, Monrovia, Liberia), American-born, first president of Liberia (1848–56). A native of Virginia,...
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Swahili language

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Swahili language, also called kiSwahili, or Kiswahili, Bantu language is spoken either as a mother tongue or as a fluent second language on the east...
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Rundi

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Rundi, the peoples of the Republic of Burundi, who speak Rundi, an Interlacustrine Bantu language. The Rundi is divided into two main ethnic groups: the...
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Pygmy

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Pygmy, in anthropology, member of any human group whose adult males grow to less than 59 inches (150 cm) in average height. A member of...
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Joseph Kabila

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Joseph Kabila, (born June 4, 1971, Sud-Kivu province, the Democratic Republic of the Congo), an army official and politician who was president of the Democratic...
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Hutu

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Hutu, also called Bahutu or Wahutu, Bantu-speaking people of Rwanda and Burundi. Numbering about 9,500,000 in the late 20th century, the Hutu comprise the vast...
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Bantu languages

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Bantu languages, a group of some 500 languages belonging to the Bantoid subgroup of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The Bantu languages...