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- ↑ Profile of Vernon Johnson Mwaanga
- ↑ Index Mp-Mz
- 1 2 3 4 Simon, David J.; Pletcher, James R.; Siegel, Brian V., eds. (2008). "Mwaanda, Vernon Johnson". Historical Dictionary of Zambia. African Historical Dictionaries. Vol. 106 (3rd ed.). Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press. pp. 314–6. ISBN 978-0-8108-5305-8.
- ↑ Andy DeRoche, Kenneth Kaunda, the United States and Southern Africa (London: Bloomsbury, 2016), especially 8, 21-29, and 73-78.
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