This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... at the turn of the last century spanned all of West Africa, from the coast of Senegal to Nigeria.

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photograph by Annie Griffiths, National Geographic “There is a valley in the hills of Jebel Shera named Wadi Musa,”he wrote to the Africa association on his arrival in Egypt.“Here are the ...

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