Colonial policies and women's participation in public life: The case of British Southern Cameroons

African Studies Quarterly

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1-22

  Adams, Melinda ^a  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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