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Knowing Africa, or What Africa Knows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

David Schoenbrun
David Schoenbrun*
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Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
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African Studies Review , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , April 2001 , pp. 97 - 112
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Copyright © African Studies Association 2001

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