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- ↑ Ajoa Yeboah Afari (1988). A Decade of Thoughts of a Native Daughter. The Author. p. 151. ISBN 9789964901967.
- ↑ "New Envoys". Ghana News. August 1980.
- ↑ Jeffrey Haynes (2022). Revolution and Democracy in Ghana: The Politics of Jerry Rawlings. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781000837735.
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