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- ↑ Cecil Mensah (20 June 2015). "Boniface Joins Hundreds Of Madina Muslims To Give Thanks". Theheraldghana. Madina Ghana. Theheraldteam. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
- ↑ "Poor attendance at Madina and Adenta voter exhibition centres". Vibeghana. GNA. 1 September 2012. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
- ↑ Holger Weiss (2007). "Begging and Almsgiving in Ghana Muslim Positions towards Poverty and Distress". Nordiska Afrika institutet. 133.
- ↑ Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform. Scarecrow Press. p. 428. ISBN 0810884704.
- ↑ Jack Berry. "The Madina Project Ghana, Language Attitudes in Ghana" (PDF).
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