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Bakoko may refer to:
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- ↑ "Bakoko people". Joshua Project. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
- ↑ Appiah, Anthony; Gates, Henry Louis (17 February 2010). Encyclopedia of Africa. Oxford University Press. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-19-533770-9 . Retrieved 28 August 2012.
- ↑ Fanso, Verkijika G. (31 July 1989). Cameroon History for Secondary Schools and Colleges: Prehistoric times to the nineteenth century. Macmillan. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-333-47121-0 . Retrieved 28 August 2012.
- ↑ Jonassohn, Kurt; Björnson, Karin Solveig (1998). Genocide and Gross Human Rights Violations in Comparative Perspective. Transaction Publishers. p. 250. ISBN 978-0-7658-0417-4 . Retrieved 28 August 2012.
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