Adwaba are agricultural villages in Mauritania,[1] mainly inhabited by former slaves and other lower castes.[2] A large of proportion of Mauritania's rural poor is made up of adwaba.

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Further reading

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  • Urs Peter Ruf (1999). Ending slavery: hierarchy, dependency, and gender in central Mauritania. Transcript Verlag, 1999. ISBN 9783933127495.

References

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  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-07-07. Retrieved 2012-03-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) MAURITANIA: UNDERSTANDING THE CURRENT FOOD SITUATION BASED ON THE EVIDENCE, Washington, August 29, 2005
  2. ^ Slavery’s last stronghold
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