Safiyya and Adamah: Punishing adultery with Sharia stones in twenty-first-century Nigeria

African Affairs

Volumn 102, Issue 408, 2003, Pages 389-408

  Kalu, Ogbu U ^a  

^a McCormick Theological Seminary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORALITY; RELIGION; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

NIGERIA;

EID: 0043201271     PISSN: 00019909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adg051     Document Type: Article

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