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- ↑ "The Healers by Ayi Kwei Armah". Complete Review . Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ↑ "The Healers: novel by Armah". Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ↑ Lazarus, Neil (1982). "Implications of Technique in Ayi kwei Armah's "The Healers"". Research in African Literatures . Indiana University Press. 13 (4): 488-498. Retrieved 29 March 2022– via JSTOR.
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