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- ↑ Bisschoff, L. (2014) Women's stories and struggles in "These Hands" (Flora M'mbugu-Schelling). In: Bisschoff, L. and Murphy, D. (eds.) Africa's Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema. Legenda: Oxford. ISBN 9781907975516
- 1 2 Claire Robertson, Film Reviews, The American Historical Review , Vol. 101, Issue 4, October 1996, pp.1142-3.
- ↑ Flora M'mbugu-Schelling Archived 2019-04-12 at the Wayback Machine , African Film Festival.