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- 1 2 Kathleen Sheldon (2005). "National Congress of Sierra Leonean Women". Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa. Scarecrow Press. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-8108-6547-1.
- ↑ Christopher Fyfe (1987). Sierra Leone, 1787-1987: Two Centuries of Intellectual Life. Manchester University Press. p. 451. ISBN 978-0-7190-2791-8.
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