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The Sounds of West Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

George Worlasi Kwasi Dor
George Worlasi Kwasi Dor*
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University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi
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African Studies Review , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , December 2003 , pp. 111 - 117
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Copyright © African Studies Association 2003

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