Life histories of infertile women in Ugep, Southern Nigeria

Etude de la Population Africaine

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 63-88

  Obono, Oka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

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