Christianity, modernity and the weight of tradition the life of Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I, c.1888-1931

Africa

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 279-311

  Akyeampong, Emmanuel ^a  

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DOI: 10.2307/1161026     Document Type: Article

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