Introduction: Bigmanity and network governance in African conflicts

African conflicts and informal power: Big Men and networks

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-31

  Utas, Mats ^a  

^a NORDIC AFRICA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

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