Hubert Jules Deschamps
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LOCATION: Paris, France
Professor of Modern History of Black Africa, University of Paris, 1962–70. Colonial Administrator, Madagascar, 1926–36. Author of History of Madagascar and others.
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Mauritania, country on the Atlantic coast of Africa. Mauritania forms a geographic and cultural bridge between the North African Maghrib (a region that also includes Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) and the westernmost portion of sub-Saharan Africa. Culturally, it forms a transitional zone between…
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