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Nwando Achebe on Her New Book, Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa

At the 2020 Abuja Literary and Arts Festival, Amina Alaoui Soulimani interviewed the historian Nwando Achebe about her new book, Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa.

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