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Tamale

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Tamale (təmä`lē), town (1984 pop. 136,828), capital of the Northern Region, N Ghana. It is a road junction and agricultural trade and education center.
Tamale 

a city in Ghana; the administrative center of the Northern Region. Population, 99,000 (1970). Linked by a road with the Atlantic coast, Tamale serves as the trade center of an agricultural area that produces mainly cotton and grains. There is also stock raising. Among the local industries are textile and food enterprises.
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We whacked this up, shared it, and sometimes loaned all of what was left of it when one of us needed it for some more gorgeous girl- adventure, such as car-fare out to Blair's Park and back--twenty cents, bang, just like that; and ice-cream for two--thirty cents; or tamales in a tamale-parlour, which came cheaper and which for two cost only twenty cents.
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