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- 1 2 LaPin 1984, p. 8.
- ↑ LaPin 1984, p. 7.
- Appiah, Kwame Anthony and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Africana, 1st edition. New York: Basic Civitas Books, ISBN 0-465-00071-1.
