Agrarian change in Kusasi, North-East Ghana

Africa

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 436-456

  Webber, Paul ^a  

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EID: 0040653819     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1160961     Document Type: Article

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