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Akinwumi Ogundiran, Of Small Things Remembered: Beads, Cowries, and Cultural Translations of the Atlantic Experience in Yorubaland, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 35, No. 2/3 (2002), pp. 427-457
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