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- 1 2 "Old Boys Profiles: Daasebre Nana Osei Bonsu II". Prempeh College. Archived from the original on 2009-11-23. Retrieved 2010-01-30.
- ↑ "Kufuor's Friends Chop As He Pines", Ghanaian Chronicle (via GhanaWeb), 4 May 2005.