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The New Range of Sources in African History

In 2003 I received a read-a-ticket 695, which meant in the previous 30 years since it was formed, about an average of 30 new people a year had been visiting that archive. Because of the changes in Brazil, the Brazilian government's law meant which meant that African history had to be taught in schools. And actually that's really transformed the field of pre-colonial African history because many of the researchers in, often now, teaching in the US who really are publishing a lot in this area are Brazilian. They bring a different lens and they've used a whole range of archives. The other thing that I've certainly tried to do in my own work is try to broaden a

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