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Geographic & demographic terms	Content terms	Time period terms
Africa	Civilization	Modern
African	Intellectual life	Ancient
African Diaspora	Literature	Early
African American	Fiction	Colonial/French/British
Eastern Africa	Poetry	Independent
Sub-Saharan Africa	Authors	Individual centuries
Central Africa	Poets
North Africa	History
West Africa	Emigration/immigration
Individual countries	Criticism
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Blacks	Mathematics
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