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Articles

‘Ringleaders and Troublemakers’: Malawian (Nyasa) migrants and transnational labor movements in Southern Africa, c.1910–1960

Pages 656-675 | Received 07 Apr 2017, Accepted 21 Jun 2017, Published online: 17 Jul 2017

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Archival documents

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Newspapers

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  • ‘Labor Conditions at Kariba’, Nyasaland Times, 3 October 1956.

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