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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 See also: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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