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- 1 2 Bazenguissa-Ganga, Rémy. Les voies du politique au Congo: essai de sociologie historique . Paris: Karthala, 1997. p. 39
- ↑ Bazenguissa-Ganga, Rémy, Les voies du politique au Congo.
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