Salt and kola exchange
Commodity, market and caravan histories are connected to the Museum record. A line is not shown until sources support an evidence-safe geometry.
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Atlas
A geographic reference for reading places, records and movements across West Africa and the Sahel.
READING THE MAP: country boundaries, coastlines and place coordinates show present-day geography. Historical movement appears only through records whose evidence and uncertainty are stated; no historical line is drawn where the archive lacks reviewed spatial evidence.
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PRESENT-DAY GEOGRAPHY: Yamana is represented through its record, not a map marker: the archive does not publish a public coordinate for Yamana without verified geographic evidence.
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| Record | Present-day reference | Coordinate / geometry state | Related record |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ouagadougou | Burkina Faso | Verified Natural Earth populated-place coordinate | Place record |
| Yamana | Location not published | No public coordinate is shown without verified geographic evidence | Yamana record |
| Salt and kola exchange | West African and Sahelian context | No historical line is shown; geometry remains under review | Gallery 7 |
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Religious and scholarly worlds
Networks of learning are read through people, sources and places without turning context into genealogy.
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