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- ↑ A Green Place, a Good Place: Agrarian Change, Gender, and Social Identity in the Great Lakes Region to the 15th Century. Boydell & Brewer, Limited. 1998. pp. 46, 100–101. ISBN 978-0-85255-681-8.
- ↑ An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400. pp. 195–196.
- ↑ Telling Our Own Stories: Local Histories from South Mara, Tanzania. pp. 10, 12–13, 307.
- ↑ https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/east2750