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- ↑ "Distinguished Africanist Award". africanstudies.org. African Studies Association. 2022. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
- ↑ Klein, Martin (Nov 1, 2016). "AHA Activities Boubakar Barry, Historian of Senegambia, Selected as 2016 Honorary Foreign Member". historians.org. American Historical Association. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
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