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Ujiji / Kawélé sofi reckoning

Ujiji / Kawélé sofi reckoning: a historical unit of account.

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Cameron’s 1874 observation describes market prices in sofi beads and moneychangers. This supports a local market account; daily cloth exchange is not a hard peg. [1]

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  1. Karin Pallaver · What East Africans Got for Their Ivory and Slaves, in Currencies of the Indian Ocean World (2019),71–92 C2068 ↗

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“Ujiji / Kawélé sofi reckoning.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/CUR-V37-UJIJI-SOFI.html

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