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- ↑ "Debates, Issue 4". Gold Coast Legislative Assembly. 1955: xiv.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ "Parliamentary Debates; Official Report, Part 2". Parliamentary Debates. Ghana National Assembly: vi and 10. 1965.
- ↑ Austin, Dennis (1976). Ghana Observed:Essays on the Politics of a West African Republic. p. 53. ISBN 9780841902787.
- ↑ "The Ghanaian, Issues 1-9; Issues 12-18". The Ghanaian. Star Publishing Company, Limited: 5. 1958.
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