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- ↑ Akurang-Parry, Kwabena O. (2006). "Review of The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison: A Collective Biography of Elite Society in the Gold Coast". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 39 (2): 367–370. ISSN 0361-7882.
- ↑ Doortmont, Michel (2005). The pen-pictures of modern Africans and African celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison : a collective biography of elite society in the Gold Coast Colony (PDF). Leiden: Brill. ISBN 90-04-14097-2.