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- ↑ "Nyanga's darkest night & the betrayal of innocent souls". News of the South. 13 June 2017.
- ↑ David J. Maxwell (1997). "The Spirit and the Scapular: Pentecostaland Catholic Interactions in Northern Nyanga District, Zimbabwe in the 1950s and early 1960s". Journal of Southern African Studies. 23 (2). The Sect from the Black North Meets the Mother of Drunken Harlots:The Global Export of a Local Struggle.
- ↑ Terence Ranger (1983). "Holy Men and Rural Communities in Zimbabwe, 1970–1980". Studies in Church History. 20 (The Church and War): 443–461. doi:10.1017/S0424208400007439.
- ↑ Ranger, Terence O., "Mau Mau, FRELIMO and the guerrilla war: rural class struggle" (PDF), Peasant consciousness and guerrilla war in Zimbabwe: a comparative study
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