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Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of war in modern Africa

Richard ReidFaculty of History, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 1040-1069 | Received 20 Jan 2019, Accepted 06 Jun 2018, Published online: 26 Aug 2019

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