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- ↑ Kadiker Rex Dahn (2008). Learning from the Lives of Exiled Liberian Women: An Oral History from 1979 to 2006 (Thesis). The University of Oklahoma. OCLC 244436426.
- ↑ Epstein, Irving; Limage, Leslie (2008). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children's Issues Worldwide. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 278. ISBN 978-0-313-33616-4 . Retrieved 28 April 2012.
- ↑ Streissguth, Thomas (1 February 2006). Liberia In Pictures . Twenty-First Century Books. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-8225-2465-6 . Retrieved 28 April 2012.
