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- ↑ Vries, Jacqueline de (March 17, 2020). "The Leopard that Came to Laikom: Michael Timneng in Colonial Cameroon". The Individual in African History. Brill. pp. 148–169. doi:10.1163/9789004407824_007. ISBN 9789004407824. S2CID 216187245 – via brill.com.
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