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- ↑ Joyce B. Ashuntantang. Landscaping Postcoloniality: the Dissemination of Cameroon Anglophone Literature. Bamenda: Langaa RPCIG, 2009.
- ↑ Simon Gikandi, ed. Encyclopedia of African Literature. New York: Routledge, 2003.
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