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  2. Economy of Africa - Wikipedia

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    The economy of Africa consists of the trade, industry, agriculture, and human resources of the continent. As of 2019, approximately 1.3 billion people [11] were living in 53 countries in Africa. Africa is a resource-rich continent. [12] [13] Recent growth has been due to growth in sales, commodities, services, and manufacturing. [14]

  3. Slavery in contemporary Africa - Wikipedia

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    The practice of slavery in Chad, as in the Sahel states in general, is an entrenched phenomenon with a long history, going back to the trans-Saharan slave trade in the Sahelian kingdoms, and it continues today. As elsewhere in Central and West Africa, the situation reflects an ethnic, racial and religious rift.

  4. Caste systems in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Caste systems in Africa are a form of social stratification found in numerous ethnic groups, found in over fifteen countries, particularly in the Sahel, West Africa, and North Africa. [1] These caste systems feature endogamy, hierarchical status, inherited occupation, membership by birth, pollution concepts and restraints on commensality.

  5. Africa Today - Wikipedia

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    Africa Today is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary academic journal with articles about contemporary Africa. It was founded in 1954 and is published quarterly by the Indiana University Press . [1] The editors accept submissions based on original research in any humanities and social science discipline.

  6. Women and agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa - Wikipedia

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    The agricultural system in Sub-Saharan Africa is a predominantly small-scale farming system with more than 50% of the agricultural activity performed by women, producing about 60-70% of the food in this region. [1] While women provide the majority of the labor in agricultural production, their access and control over productive resources is ...

  7. Economy of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    The economy of South Africa is a mixed economy, emerging market, and upper-middle-income economy, one of only eight such countries in Africa. [29] [30] [31] The economy is the most industrialized, technologically advanced, and diversified economy in Africa. [32] Following 1996, at the end of over twelve years of international sanctions, South ...

  8. Child labour in Africa - Wikipedia

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    In Africa, children work with their families and communities as part of training and aiding production, and this is not defined as harmful or exploitative child labour. The training includes ploughing (above), weeding, herding livestock, fertilizer, pesticide application and harvesting under supervision and local regulations. Child labour in ...

  9. Bantu peoples - Wikipedia

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    Abantu is the Xhosa and Zulu word for people. It is the plural of the word 'umuntu', meaning 'person', and is based on the stem '--ntu', plus the plural prefix 'aba'. [6] In linguistics, the word Bantu, for the language families and its speakers, is an artificial term based on the reconstructed Proto-Bantu term for "people" or "humans".

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