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- 1 2 3 4 Adrien Huannou, "Julien Alapini (1906–1970)" in La littérature béninoise de langue française: des origines à nos jours, Karthala, Paris, 1984, pp. 82-84 ISBN 9782865371051
- ↑ In the Dictionnaire des œuvres littéraires de langue française en Afrique au sud du Sahara, volume 1, p. 17, Ambroise Kom and Noureini Tidjani-Serpos offer a very critical reading of this collection.
