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  Ashanti
  Ashanti, or Asante, are a major ethnic group of Ashanti Region in Ghana. They are an Akan people who speak Asante, an Akan dialect similar to Fante.
  http://wn.com/Ashanti
• Haile Selassie
  http://wn.com/Haile_Selassie
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  Sahelian kingdoms
  The Sahelian kingdoms were a series of kingdoms or empires that were centered on the sahel, the area of grasslands south of the Sahara. The wealth of the states came from controlling the trade routes across the desert. Their power came from having large pack animals like camels and horses that were fast enough to keep a large empire under central control and were also useful in battle. All of these empires were also quite decentralized with member cities having a great deal of autonomy.
  http://wn.com/Sahelian_kingdoms
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  Yoruba people
  :Okun redirects here. A Dr.Okun was a character in Independence Day (film). Or see Okan
  http://wn.com/Yoruba_people

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  Algeria
  Algeria (Arabic: , al-Jazā’ir, Berber: Dzayer, French: Algérie), officially the '''People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria'''), is a country in North Africa. In terms of land area, it is the largest country on the Mediterranean Sea, the second largest on the African continent after Sudan, and the eleventh-largest country in the world.
  http://wn.com/Algeria
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  Bilma
  Bilma is an oasis town in north east Niger with a population of around 2,500 people. It lies protected from the desert dunes under the Kaouar Cliffs and is the largest town along the Kaouar escarpment. It is known for its gardens, for salt and natron production through evaporation ponds, date cultivation, and as the destination of one of the last Saharan caravan routes (the Azalai, from Agadez).
  http://wn.com/Bilma
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  Burkina Faso
  Burkina Faso ( ; ) – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.
  http://wn.com/Burkina_Faso
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  Chad
  Chad (, Tshād), officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west. Due to its distance from the sea and its largely desert climate, the country is sometimes referred to as the "Dead Heart of Africa".
  http://wn.com/Chad
• Côte d’Ivoire
  http://wn.com/Côte_d’Ivoire
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  Djenné
  Djenné (also Djénné, Jenné and Jenne) is a town in the Inland Niger Delta region of central Mali. It has an ethnically diverse population of about 33,000 (in 2009). Administratively it is part of the Mopti Region.
  http://wn.com/Djenné
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  Dongola
  Dongola (also spelled Dunqulah or Dunqula and formerly sometimes known as '''Al 'Urdi'''; Arabic: دنقلا) is the capital of the state of Northern in Sudan, on the banks of the Nile. It should not be confused with Old Dongola, an ancient city located 80 km upstream on the opposite bank.
  http://wn.com/Dongola
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  Eritrea
  Eritrea ( or ; Ge'ez: , Arabic: إرتريا Iritrīyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the North East of Africa. The capital is Asmara. It is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast. The east and northeast of the country have an extensive coastline on the Red Sea, directly across from Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The Dahlak Archipelago and several of the Hanish Islands are part of Eritrea. Its size is just under with an estimated population of 5 million.
  http://wn.com/Eritrea
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  Ethiopia
  {{Infobox country
  http://wn.com/Ethiopia
• Faya-Largeau
  Faya-Largeau (also known as Faya) is the largest city in northern Chad and the capital of the region of Bourkou-Ennedi-Tibesti.
  http://wn.com/Faya-Largeau
• Gambia
  http://wn.com/Gambia
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  Gao
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  http://wn.com/Gao
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  Guinea
  Guinea (, officially the Republic of Guinea ), is a country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea (Guinée française), it is today sometimes called Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from its neighbor Guinea-Bissau. Conakry is the capital, the seat of the national government, and the largest city.
  http://wn.com/Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
  http://wn.com/Guinea_Bissau
• Italian Empire
  http://wn.com/Italian_Empire
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  Kayes
  Kayes (Bambara Kayi, Soninké Xaayi) is a city in western Mali on the Sénégal River, with a population of roughly 100,000 people. Kayes is the capital of the administrative region of the same name. The name "Kayes" comes from the Soninké word "karré", which describes a low humid place that floods in rainy season. The city is located north-west of the capital Bamako.
  http://wn.com/Kayes
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  Kenya
  The Republic of Kenya (pronounced ) is a country in East Africa. Lying along the Indian Ocean to its southeast and at the equator, Kenya is bordered by Somalia to the northeast, Ethiopia to the north, Sudan to the northwest, Uganda to the west and Tanzania to the south. Lake Victoria is to the southwest and is shared between Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Kenya has numerous wildlife reserves, containing thousands of animal species. The capital city is Nairobi. Kenya's area is 580,000 km2 with a population of nearly 39 million which is diverse: more than 40 different ethnic groups are present. The country is named after Mount Kenya, a significant landmark and second among Africa's highest mountain peaks.
  http://wn.com/Kenya
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  Mali
  Mali, officially the Republic of Mali (), is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with a population more than 14 million. Its capital is Bamako.
  http://wn.com/Mali
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  Mauritania
  Mauritania ( Mūrītāniyā; ; Soninke: Murutaane; Pulaar: Moritani; ), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in North Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest. It is named after the Roman province of Mauretania, even though the modern state covers a territory far to the southwest of the old province. The capital and largest city is Nouakchott, located on the Atlantic coast.
  http://wn.com/Mauritania
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  Niger
  Niger ( or ; ), officially named the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east. Niger covers a land area of almost 1,270,000 km2, over 80 percent of which is covered by the Sahara desert. The country's predominantly Islamic population of just above 15,000,000 is mostly clustered in the far south and west of the nation. The capital city is Niamey.
  http://wn.com/Niger
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  Niger River
  The Niger River ( ) is the principal river of western Africa, extending about . Its drainage basin is in area. Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in southeastern Guinea. It runs in a crescent through Mali, Niger, on the border with Benin and then through Nigeria, discharging through a massive delta, known as the Niger Delta of the Oil Rivers, into the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean. The Niger is the third-longest river in Africa, exceeded only by the Nile and the Congo River (also known as the Zaïre River). Its main tributary is the Benue River.
  http://wn.com/Niger_River
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  Nigeria
  Nigeria (), officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. The three largest and most influential ethnic groups in Nigeria are the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. In terms of religion Nigeria is roughly split half and half between Muslims and Christians with a very small minority who practice traditional religion.
  http://wn.com/Nigeria
• nomad
  http://wn.com/nomad
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  Sahara
  The Sahara (, , "The Greatest Desert") is the world's largest hot desert. At over
  http://wn.com/Sahara
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  Sahel Region
  Sahel is one of Burkina Faso's 13 administrative regions. It was created on 2 July 2001 and had a population of 808,928 in 2006. The region's capital is Dori. Four provinces make up the region - Oudalan, Séno, Soum, and Yagha.
  http://wn.com/Sahel_Region
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  Senegal
  Senegal (), officially the Republic of Senegal (République du Sénégal, ), is a country south of the Sénégal River in western Africa. It owes its name to the river that borders it to the East and North and that originates from the Fouta Djallon in Guinea. Senegal is externally bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south; internally it almost completely surrounds The Gambia, namely on the north, east and south, exempting Gambia's short Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal covers a land area of almost 197,000 km², and has an estimated population of about 14 million.The climate is tropical with two seasons: the dry season and the rainy season.
  http://wn.com/Senegal
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  Sierra Leone
  Sierra Leone () (Krio: Sa Lone), officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north and east, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of and has a population estimated at 6.5 million. It is a former British Colony and now a constitutional republic comprising three provinces and the Western Area; which are further divided into fourteen districts.
  http://wn.com/Sierra_Leone
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  Somalia
  Somalia ( ; ; ), officially the Republic of Somalia (, ) and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic under communist rule, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya to the southwest, the Gulf of Aden with Yemen to the north, the Indian Ocean to the east, and Ethiopia to the west. With the longest coastline on the continent, its terrain consists mainly of plateaus, plains and highlands.
  http://wn.com/Somalia
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  Sudan
  Sudan (), officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest country in Africa and the Arab world, and tenth largest in the world by area. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east,Kenya and Uganda to the southeast, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west and Libya to the northwest. The world's longest river, the Nile, divides the country between east and west sides.
  http://wn.com/Sudan
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  Sultanate of Egypt
  The Sultanate of Egypt () is the name of the short-lived protectorate that the United Kingdom imposed over Egypt between 1914 and 1922.
  http://wn.com/Sultanate_of_Egypt
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  Timbuktu
  Timbuktu (Timbuctoo) (Koyra Chiini: Tumbutu; ) is a city in Tombouctou Region, in the West African nation of Mali. It was made prosperous by the tenth mansa of the Mali Empire, Mansa Musa. It is home to Sankore University and other madrasas, and was an intellectual and spiritual capital and centre for the propagation of Islam throughout Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its three great mosques, Djingareyber, Sankore and Sidi Yahya, recall Timbuktu's golden age. Although continuously restored, these monuments are today under threat from desertification.
  http://wn.com/Timbuktu

• Acacia
• Acacia laeta
• Acacia senegal
• Acacia tortilis
• African Wild Dog
• Algeria
• Arab slave trade
• Arabic
• Aristida sieberana
• Aristida stipoides
• Ashanti
• Atlantic Ocean
• Balanites aegyptiaca
• Baobab
• Bilma
• Bodélé Depression
• Boscia senegalensis
• Bubal Hartebeest
• Burkina Faso
• Cenchrus biflorus
• Chad
• Cheetah
• Commiphora africana
• Côte d’Ivoire
• Dama Gazelle
• Darfur
• desertification
• diarrhea
• Djenné
• Dongola
• Dorcas Gazelle
• dust storm
• dust storms
• ecoregion
• endangered species
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• extinct in the wild
• extinction
• Faidherbia albida
• famine
• Faya-Largeau
• French West Africa
• Gambia
• Gao
• gastroenteritis
• Green Sahara
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Guineafowl
• Haile Selassie
• Italian Empire
• Italian Eritrea
• Kayes
• Kenya
• Lion
• Mali
• malnutrition
• Mauritania
• Meningitis
• migratory bird
• military junta
• Niger
• Niger River
• Nigeria
• nomad
• North African
• Oryza glaberrima
• over-population
• Pan Sahel Initiative
• Panicum turgidum
• Red Sea
• Red-fronted Gazelle
• respiratory diseases
• Sahara
• Sahel (Eritrea)
• Sahel drought
• Sahel Region
• Sahel, Tunisia
• Sahelian kingdoms
• savanna
• Scimitar Oryx
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• soil erosion
• Somalia
• sorghum
• steppes
• Sudan
• Sudan (region)
• Sudanian Savanna
• Sultanate of Egypt
• Terrestrial ecozone
• Timbuktu
• Trans-Saharan trade
• transhumance
• vulnerable species
• War in Darfur
• West Africa
• Yoruba people

Sahel, Shafi Filmography

• Black Tulip (2010) (actor, plays Old Afghan Poet)