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MADI (A-MADI)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 284 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MADI (A-MADI) , a See also:negro See also:race of the See also:Nile valley, occupying both See also:banks of the See also:Bahr-el-See also:Jebel immediately See also:north of See also:Albert See also:Nyanza. Tradition makes them immigrants from the north-See also:west. They are remarkable for the See also:consideration shown to their See also:women, who choose their own husbands, are never See also:ill-treated or hard-worked, and take See also:part in tribal deliberations. The Madi build sepulchral monuments of an elaborate type, two huge narrow stones sloping towards each other with two smaller slabs covering the opening between them. They have been much harried by the Azandeh and Abarambo. They were visited by W. See also:Junker in 1882–1883, and described by him in See also:Petermann's Mittheilungen for May 1883.

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