Map of the Jolof or Wolof Empire on the west coast of Africa. Shows Waalo, Kayor, Baol, Sine and Saloum areas, the Senegal and Gambia rivers, and the slave island of Goree. Map of the countres of inhabited by the Wolofs. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve’s L’Afrique, Paris, 1814. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl’s The World in Miniature: Africa, A description of the manners and customs Moors of the Sahara and of the Negro Nations, R. Ackermann, England, 1821.

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Size: 5707px × 6355px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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