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African empires
Umbrella term for some pre-colonial African kingdoms / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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African empires is an umbrella term used in African studies to refer to a number of pre-colonial African kingdoms in Africa with multinational structures incorporating various populations and polities into a single entity, usually through conquest.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
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Listed below are known African empires and their respective capital cities.