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In 1820, King Radama of Imerina, Madagascar signed a treaty allowing approximately one hundred young Malagasy to train abroad under official British supervision

This book introduces readers to the age of intra-African migration, a period from the mid-19th century onward in which the center of gravity of African migratio

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