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{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - 1 2 Bernasko, F. G. (2002). The republics that fell by the gun: the 1966 military intervention in Ghana and Nigeria revisited. p. 234.
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{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ Harvey, W. B. (1966). Law and Social Change in Ghana. p. 243. ISBN 9781400875580.
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{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ "The Ghana Law Reports, Part 2". Council for Law Reporting. 1963: 469.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ "West Africa, Issues 2561-2587". West Africa Publishing Company Limited. 1966: 1371.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ Howell, T. A. (1972). Ghana & Nkrumah. p. 105. ISBN 9780871961914.
- ↑ Christenson, Ron (1991). Political Trials in History: From Antiquity to the Present. p. 4. ISBN 9781412831253.
- ↑ Information Division of the Ghana High Commission., London (1963). Treason Trial: The State Versus Robert Benjamin Otchere, Joseph Yaw Manu, Tawia Adamafio, Ako Adjei, Hugh Horatio Cofie-Crabbe; Full Text of Opening Address by Attorney-General at the High Court (Special Criminal Division) in Accra on 9.8.1963.
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{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ "Record of Proceedings - International Labour Conference, Volumes 54-55". International Labour Office. 1970: xxii.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ "West Africa, Issues 2718-2743". West Africa Publishing Company Limited. 1971: 54.
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