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Removal of early civilization text[edit]

I've removed this text:

It was a major body of water and a centre for early civilisation in the area. Cave paintings are found on cliffs on its former northern shore. It later became important to the Ghana Empire.

I can find no source for the rock paintings or for cliffs on the northern shore. I've also failed to find a source linking the lake to the Ghana Empire. I can find no mentioned of the lake in Levtzion "Ancient Ghana and Mali" and the map at the front of the book suggests that the Empire didn't extend as far east. The village of Ras el Ma is mentioned by al-Sadi in his Tarikh al-Sudan (Hunwick 1999) in his account of the Moroccan invasion of 1591.

Having deleted the above I felt that I should add some content. The only sources that I can find are unpublished and in French – and thus far from ideal. My main source is a report by Hamerlynch, Chiramba & Pardo produced in 2009 for United Nations Environment Program. This is comprehensive and contains a large amount of information (although sources are not always given). I also found chapters of what appears to be a 2004 masters thesis in French by Séverine Bouard et Sophie Tiers on a defunct web site. The title page is corrupt. This thesis is cited by Hamerlynch et al. Aa77zz (talk) 16:48, 26 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

See title here. Note that this is published and cited in several academic works (see a Google Scholar search) While this may surprise some in the United States, dissertations are quite frequently cited as authoritative academic works, especially in African Studies. If you leaf through the bibliographies and/or endnotes of major Anglophone or Francophone African history texts you'll see what I mean.

Proper citation would be:

Séverine BOUARD et Sophie TIERS (2004) Le lac Faguibine, un espace agropastoral au Nord Mali : dynamiques agraires, gestion des ressources naturelles et stratégies des acteurs. Mémoire ESAT2-DIAT, option AGIR. Montpellier : CNEARC. 150p.

Publisher here is CNEARC, the Centre national d'études agronomiques des régions chaudes. T L Miles (talk) 18:00, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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