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- ↑ Julian Caldecott; Daniel H. Janzen (30 July 2009). Designing Conservation Projects. Cambridge University Press. pp. 39–. ISBN 978-0-521-11796-8.
- ↑ Olson, James Stuart (1996). The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 105. ISBN 9780313279188.
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