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Contemporary Observers of Mauritania, like the French colonizers of an earlier century, often have described the country as a bridge linking North Africa and West Africa. Certainly individual groups within Mauritania have maintained strong cultural and economic ties with their neighbors--to whom they were often related--in both regions. Yet although the country served as a geographical bridge, crisscrossed by merchants transporting gold, salt, and slaves between the northern and southern edges of the Sahara, it also marked a cultural boundary between sedentary farmers of sub-Saharan Africa and the nomadic Arab-Berber herders from the Maghrib. The entire information on Mauritania from day one of its existence is contained in this book

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I am Sampson Jerry, a historian and writer, it is my pleasure to give out information on histories, and I will continue doing so as I live, Please read the entire book, the information that will serve you better are my book priorities

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