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Kusimba, C.M., Kusimba, S.B. Book Review Africa: A Biography of the Continent. By John Reader. Hamish Hamilton, London 1997, 840 pp. ISBN 0-241-13047-6. African Archaeological Review 16, 137–142 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021959113918
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