Leo Frobenius
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Leo Viktor Frobenius was a German self-taught ethnologist and archaeologist and a major figure in German ethnography.
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Leo Frobenius in Africa (watercolour by Carl Arriens)
Cover of Expeditionsbericht der Zweiten Deutschen Inner-Afrika-Expedition (1907–09) Auf dem Wege nach Atlantis
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Yoruba people
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The Yoruba people are a West African ethnic group who inhabit parts of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo, a region collectively called Yorubaland. The Yoruba constitute more than 50 million people in Africa an
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…later expelled from the Mediterranean by northern Indoeuropean invaders, so that the civilization survived only in West Africa in the culture of the Yoruba people to this present day though degenerating. The American historian W. E. B. Du Bois cited Frobenius with approbation to counter the racism of his time…
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Some Yoruba cities of the Middle Ages
The Ade-Are crown in Ile Ife