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Living among the dead: Mpondo theory, black mourning and the living dead in Hugo ka Canham’s Riotous Deathscapes

by Hugo ka Canham, Durham, Duke University Press, 2023, 288 pp., US$26.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4780-1959-6.

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