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- ↑ Addaney, Michael; Nyarko, Michael Gyan, eds. (2017). Ghana @ 60: Governance and human rights in twenty-first century Africa. Pretoria: Pretoria University Law Press. ISBN 978-1-920538-74-3 . Retrieved 7 April 2022.
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