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Where are the Baule from?

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Ivory Coast

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Waka Snan

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(Baule) “people of wood” - men and women dressed in the finest costume

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Mouse Divination

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(Baule) widely used in consultations regarding concerns ranging from serious illness to establishing the time and scale of sacrifices, from personal misfortune to public conflict. the lower compartment houses a mouse fed on rice, which is put in the upper chamber on a small tray to which are attached nine articulated beaded batons.

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Akan

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(Baule) Related groups of people to Baule

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Susan Vogel

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(Baule) Studies and publishes on the Baule at Columbia

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Asantehene

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king of Asante, chosen for skill, ruler of Akan confederacy

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Kumasi

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the cultural capital of Ghana

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Odwira

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(Asante) New Years festival, British officer traveled to Kumasi to attend this festival

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Okomfo Anokye

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(Asante) Priest or Advisor to Osei Tutu, invented golden stool (nobody sits on this stool, sacred, descended from clouds, similar to our flag)

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Osei Tutu

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(Asante) Founded 1700 Akan Confederacy (council, collective groups of Akan speaking peoples

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Golden Stool

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(Asante) Descended to Osei Tutu on a Friday, symbol of all Akan states

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Thomas Bowditch 1817

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English officer in 1817. Walked from Cape Coast to Asante to study to study the people. First editions of book were hand color painted by Bowditch

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Pierre de Marees 1640

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Sailed on Dutch ship, carefully described the Asante, were turned into engravings

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Okyeame

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(Asante) Interlocutor between kings and individual

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Adinkra

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Stamped cloth oldest type that the Asante made

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Kente

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(Asante) Geometric strip cloth, done in bright color

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Forowa

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(Asante) A container of cooper/brass that is used to hold relics

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Akua Ba

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(Asante) Image of Akua’s child, common – Very small, very iconic, disk-shapped headed doll

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Oba

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term for king in Benin

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Akenzuaa

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popular and successful king (Benin, Nigeria)

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1897 British punitive expedition

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response to the defeat of a previous British-led invasion force under Acting Consul General James Philips (which had left all but two men dead).[1] Rawson’s troops captured, burned, and looted Benin City, bringing to an end the west African Kingdom of Benin. As a result much of the country’s art, including the Benin Bronzes, was either destroyed, looted or dispersed.

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Early period

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1400-1600

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Middle period

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1600-1700

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Late period

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1700-1897

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25
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Recent period

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1897-now

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26
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Iguegha

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First brass castor (Benin)

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27
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Igbo Ukwu

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It is notable for three archaeological sites, where excavations have found bronze artifacts from a highly sophisticated bronze metal-working culture dating perhaps to the 9th or 10th century, centuries before other known bronzes of the region.

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Igbo Isaiah

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Shallow, remains of a shrine which was built on surface of ground

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Igbo Richard

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Deep, burial of a powerful and wealthy man

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Thurston Shaw

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English archeologist who studied the Equatorial Forest

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31
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Where are the Igbo from and what are they known for?

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Nigeria, upward mobility

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32
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Mwuo

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(Igbo) White maiden mask

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33
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Okoroshi

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(Igbo) dark, ugly male mask, also used to refer to the masquerade in general

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Mbari

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(Igbo) Prayer offered in the form of art, art as process finsihed product is discarded

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Ikenga

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(Igbo) Shrines to the man’s right arm, strength and aggression, ambition, and personal power

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Ichi

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(Igbo) Marks placed on the foreheads of men when they achieve status

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37
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Herbert M. Cole

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Scholar that wrote chapter on Igbo in the Visona text

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Nganga

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Healer/pharmacist who puts healing potions together and prepares Nkisi

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Nkisi

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Magical object (can be figural)/power object for giving medicine & for healing

40
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Nkonda

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Means “hunt” - sculpted figures with nails driven into them. They hunt witches (symbolic)

41
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Mpemba

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clay and kale that is used to give power to Nkisi. the white clay is associated with bones of their ancestors (symbolically)

42
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Vodou

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Syncretistic religion, blends aspects of Christianity and African religions

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Kota language

44
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Mahangwe

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Northern kota

45
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Obamaba

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Southern Kota

46
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Mbulu

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(Kota) term for the guardian figures, northern- wire wrapped around wooden armature, Southern wire covered with sheets of metal

47
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What did Kota Women wear?

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wore attached chain from septum to ear

48
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What did Kota men wear?

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patterned wigs made of fiber often decorated with cowrie shells

49
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Ngil

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(Kota) mask of men’s society, slightly concave, heart shaped-face-to-eyebrows. Duran, Braque, and Pacasso - interest in the art of Gabon (primitive)

50
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Bieri

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(Kota) Reliquary guardian figures, focus of symmetry and balance (because they live in a chaotic place)

51
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Ancient Ife

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City of Yoruba

52
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Olodumare

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Yoruba creator god

53
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Obatala

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Yoruba god of artist

54
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Oduduwa

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First ruler of Ife

55
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Oni

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King of Ife

56
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Where are the Yoruba from?

57
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Yoruba has a huge population

58
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Eshu (elegba)

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(Yoruba) trickster/messenger god, will trip you if you dishonor him, god of the crossroads-physical or metaphorical

59
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Shango

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punishes with lightning, god of twins (Yoruba)

60
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Ibeji

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twin (Yoruba)

61
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Babalawo

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Diviner (Yoruba)

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Ifa

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system or god of divination (Yoruba)

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Oba

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(Yoruba) Title for King

64
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Gelede

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(Yoruba) mask tradition that is directed at women, worn by men

65
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Egungun

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(Yoruba) mask tradition for the ancestors

66
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Henry Drewal

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Yoruba scholar - University of Wisconsin

67
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Oni

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(Yoruba) chief of Ife

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Olodumare

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Yoruba creator god

69
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Obatala

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Son that was sent down first (Yoruba)

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Frobenius

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early mythologist and scholar who was 1st to visit Ife, recorded many of their myths

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Ekpo Eyo

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Nigerian archaeologist retired from U of Maryland

72
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F. Willet

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archeology at Northwestern, then director of museum n Glasgow

73
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Where are the Kuba from

74
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Nyim

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king of Kuba people

75
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Ndop

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(Kuba) cared wooden figure that represents the king (only about 12 of them)

76
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Shamba Bolongongo

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1st king of Kuba

77
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Mwaash a mboy

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King’s mask (Kuba)

78
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Ngaady a mwaash

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Queen’s mask/women’s mask - metaphor for earth/mother earth (Kuba)

79
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Mbwoom

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(Kuba) represents pygmies who lived in the area before the Kuba
William Shepard: American missionary who was black. Went to Congo in 19th century and brought art back & wrote about some of the atrocities being committed by colonialist

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Hochschild

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wrote King Leopold’s Ghost about atrocities King Leopold of Belgium committed against people of the Congo

81
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Mbudye

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divination association

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Nokongolo

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Evil uncle, overthrown by Kalala

83
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Kalala llunga

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Brave young prince

84
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Lukasa

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Memory device

85
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Master of buli

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artist (did stools w/ flipper hands)

86
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Polly (Mary) Nooter-Roberts

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Luba scholar

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Asante Theme

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visual motifs and verbal expression

88
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Njoya

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Famous King during the period of the transition

89
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Ibrahim Njoya

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brother who painted the painting of Fon Yu

90
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Fon

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Term for king in Cameroon

91
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Yon Yu

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has famous portrait stolen

92
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Afo a Kom

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Refers directly to the painting

93
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Kwifoyn

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political system of checks and balances - like the supreme court

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