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Sep 29, 2017 the best new history books of october 2017. Hillman library s special collections hold a number of reference works that further detail this period in history, including bibliographies of the books printed at this time, as well as several examples of manuscripts and incunables. France administered her west african colonies through a governor general at dakar, senegal, and governors in the individual territories, including niger. It borders on the gulf of guinea an arm of the atlantic ocean in the south, on benin in the west, on niger in the northwest and north, on chad in the northeast, and.
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