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- ↑ This nickname was given to him to avoid confusion with the writer of the same name (Linda J. Beck, Brokering Democracy in Africa: The Rise of Clientelist Democracy in Senegal, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp.240)
- ↑ 12 July 1939, according to the Wal Fadjri newspaper