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Writing Africa in the 1980s: travels with the doctor, the film maker and the anthropologist's wife

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2011

Tim Youngs
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Africa , Volume 59 , Issue 3 , July 1989 , pp. 391 - 397
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Copyright © International African Institute 1989

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