King or knave?: Félix Adende Rapontchombo and political survival in the Gabon Estuary

African Studies Quarterly

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2002, Pages

  Rich, Jeremy ^a  

^a Health Services and Department of Biology   (United States)

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