Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa

Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 9-20

  De Bruijn, Mirjam ^a   Van Dijk, Rijk ^a   Gewald, Jan Bart ^a  

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EID: 84965014138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15746925     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004161139.i-185.8     Document Type: Article

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