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- ↑ White paper: "Essay on the form and origin of Kadongo Kamu" Archived 31 December 2011 at the Wayback Machine ,Center for African music, 5 April 2003, accessed 10 August 2011
- "Uganda ;Building of a Nation 148 Shapers and Movers, Past and present" (1).
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