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{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ Rathbone, Richard (2000). Nkrumah & the Chiefs: The Politics of Chieftaincy in Ghana, 1951–60. p. 21. ISBN 9780821413067.
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{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - 1 2 "The New Ghana, Volume 7". Ghana Information Services Department. 1962: 29.
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