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Ostrich feather
Ostrich feathers were a luxury trade good valued for decoration and fashion, carried north from the Sahel and Sahara across trans-Saharan routes. The Garamantian Empire traded them to Mediterranean markets in antiquity. Later the Kanem-Bornu Empire, the Darfur Sultanate and the Wadai Empire exported them alongside ivory and enslaved people.
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