Youth music and politics in post-war Sierra Leone

Journal of Modern African Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 627-642

  Shepler, Susan ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL WAR; ELECTION; MUSIC; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICS; POST-WAR;

SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 79951744896     PISSN: 0022278X     EISSN: 14697777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X10000509     Document Type: Article

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