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| Title: | The volume of salt production in the Central Sudan |
| Author: | Lovejoy, Paul E. |
| Book title: | Figuring African trade: proceedings of the Symposium on the quantification and structure of the import and export and long distance trade in Africa |
| Year: | 1986 |
| Pages: | 599-634 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | West Africa |
| Subject: | salt industry |
| Abstract: | This paper assesses the volume of domestic production in the salt industry of the Central Sudan in the 19th century. The region included then two major States - the Sokoto Caliphate and Borno - and the confederation of Tuareg fractions centred on the sultanate of Agades. Notes, ref. |