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Where can Victorian-style houses influenced by Brazil, Jamaica, and the United States be found in West Africa?
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The Great Zimbabwe complex, near Masvingo, south-central Zimbabwe.
Victorian-style houses influenced by Brazil, Jamaica, and the United States can be found in Fourah Bay, located in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
These wood-framed structures, which often feature verandas and shuttered windows, were built by repatriated Africans who resettled in the region following the abolition of the slave trade.1