title: Adwaba
text: # Adwaba
  
  Adwaba are agricultural villages in Mauritania, mainly inhabited by former slaves and other lower castes. A large of proportion of Mauritania's rural poor is made up of adwaba.
  
  ## Literature
  
  Urs Peter Ruf (1999). Ending slavery: hierarchy, dependency, and gender in central Mauritania. Transcript Verlag, 1999. ISBN 9783933127495.
  
  