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The origins of West African tradeBook 1971 • Posnansky, Merrick
West African Regional Development • Africa > Western Africa
Posnansky provides an overview of long-distance trade throughout northern Africa from about 3000 BC to about 1800. Posnansky especially writes of the gold and copper trade-which he sees as the basis for much of the long distance trade. The town of Be...