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- ↑ Encyclopedia of African Peoples (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago and London, 2000), s.v. Lele (p. 125).
- ↑ Mary Douglas, The Lele of the Kasai (1963), ch. 1.
- ↑ Mary Douglas, "Sorcery Accusations Unleashed: The Lele Revisited", in Implicit Meanings (2nd ed., Routledge, 1999), pp. 78-80.
- ↑ Lele language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
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