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- ↑ Bernault, Florence. Démocraties ambiguës en Afrique central: Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon: 1940-1965 . Paris: Éd. Karthala, 1996. p. 190
- ↑ Thompson, Virginia, and Richard Adloff. The emerging states of French Equatorial Africa . 1960. pp. 44, 313
- 1 2 Le Vine, Victor Theodore. Politics in Francophone Africa . Boulder, Colo. [u.a.]: Lynne Rienner, 2004. p. 189
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