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- ↑ Pushpa Naidu Parekh; Siga Fatima Jagne (1998). "ALex La Guma". Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 267–273. ISBN 978-0-313-29056-5.
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