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- ↑ Howard, Dr. J. Keir (2005). "Arnot, Frederick Stanley". Dictionary of African Christian Biography. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
- ↑ Caplan, Gerald L. (1970). The Elites of Barotseland, 1878-1969 . Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-52001-758-0.
- ↑ Hobsbawm, Eric; Ranger, Terence (26 March 2012). The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge University Press. p. 241. ISBN 978-1-107-60467-4.