Malignant organisms: Continuities of state-run violence in rural Liberia

Crisis of the State: War and Social Upheaval

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 265-291

  Utas, Mats ^a  

^a NORDIC AFRICA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

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