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1 Their major enterprise, the five-volume Colonialism in Africa, was the subject of a review article by Hopkins, A. G., ‘The burdens of empire building’, African Affairs, LXXVII (1978), 108–20;CrossRefGoogle Scholar the first volume was appraised by the present reviewer in Transafrican Journal of History, i, ii (1971), 84–9.Google Scholar
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