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- 1 2 C. L. R. James, "Kwame Nkrumah: Founder of African Emancipation", in Black World , July 1972 (pp. 4–10), p. 7.
- ↑ Addo, Ebenezer Obiri (1997). Kwame Nkrumah: A Case Study of Religion and Politics in Ghana. University Press of America. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-7618-1318-7.
- ↑ Bourret, F. M. (1952). The Gold Coast: A Survey of the Gold Coast and British Togoland, 1919-1951. Stanford University Press. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-8047-0640-7.
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