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This Sceptred Isle: Empire

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55/90. West Africa: Jaw-Jaw. The importance of West
Africa to the British Empire was initially as a staging-post on the journey to the spice-rich East, but in time the region's natural resources led to increased interest in it for its own sake. By Christopher Lee. For details see Monday

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