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- ↑ Goldman Environmental Prize: Eileen Kampakuta Brown Archived 4 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on 2 December 2007)
- 1 2 "Eileen Wani Wingfield and Eileen Kampakuta Brown (1930s-)". The Guardian. 8 March 2005. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
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