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Christie, Annalisa C. “Exploring the Social
Context of Maritime Exploitation in Tanzania between the 14th-18th c. AD: Recent Research from the Mafia Archipelago.” Prehistoric Marine Resource Use in the Indo-Pacific Regions, edited by Rintaro Ono et al., vol. 39, ANU Press, 2013, pp. 97–122. JSTOR,
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Spengen, Wim. “Structural Characteristics of Underdevelopment in the Mafia Archipelago: An Historical Analysis (Caractéristiques Structurelles Du Sous-Développement Dans l’archipel de Mafia: Analyse Historique).” Cahiers d’Études Africaines, vol. 20, no. 79, 1980, pp. 331–53. JSTOR,
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Spengen, Wim. “Structural Characteristics of Underdevelopment in the Mafia Archipelago: An Historical Analysis (Caractéristiques Structurelles Du Sous-Développement Dans l’archipel de Mafia: Analyse Historique).” Cahiers d’Études Africaines, vol. 20, no. 79, 1980, pp. 331–53. JSTOR,
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Spengen, Wim. “Structural Characteristics of Underdevelopment in the Mafia Archipelago: An Historical Analysis (Caractéristiques Structurelles Du Sous-Développement Dans l’archipel de Mafia: Analyse Historique).” Cahiers d’Études Africaines, vol. 20, no. 79, 1980, pp. 331–53. JSTOR,
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Spengen, Wim. “Structural Characteristics of Underdevelopment in the Mafia Archipelago: An Historical Analysis (Caractéristiques Structurelles Du Sous-Développement Dans l’archipel de Mafia: Analyse Historique).” Cahiers d’Études Africaines, vol. 20, no. 79, 1980, pp. 331–53. JSTOR,
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Spengen, Wim. “Structural Characteristics of Underdevelopment in the Mafia Archipelago: An Historical Analysis (Caractéristiques Structurelles Du Sous-Développement Dans l’archipel de Mafia: Analyse Historique).” Cahiers d’Études Africaines, vol. 20, no. 79, 1980, pp. 331–53. JSTOR,
291:. In total, the Mafia archipelago covers 972 km (375 sq mi) in total, of which 8.5 km (3.3 sq mi) 407 km2 are land and 565 km2 are water. and has an average elevation of 53 m (174 ft). Of the 12 reefs in the archipelago the most famous one is the
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in the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1840, they finally drove the Court of Oman to
Zanzibar, establishing their authority. Mafia was taken under German sovereignty in 1880 as a result of European colonial negotiations, and it later became a part of
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nuts are becoming more significant. The entire island is covered in inhabited and cultivated, with the exception of the eastern beaches where coral rock prevents cultivation.
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Adibi, S. A. H., et al. "A study on the trend of sports fishery of Mafia Island (Tanzania) along the East
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