Adwaba Explained

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.

See also

• Slavery in Mauritania

Further reading

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

References

1. Web site: Archived copy . 2012-03-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100707144334/http://www.fews.net/docs/Publications/1000778.pdf . 2010-07-07 . MAURITANIA: UNDERSTANDING THE CURRENT FOOD SITUATION BASED ON THE EVIDENCE, Washington, August 29, 2005
2. http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2012/03/world/mauritania.slaverys.last.stronghold/index.html Slavery’s last stronghold

External links

• https://eportfolios.federation.edu.au/view/blocks.php?id=147740&
• www.minorityvoices.org Mauritania: MRG visits Haratine community as part of campaign to end slavery