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Special Issue Articles

‘FOR FARMERS, BY FARMERS’

Using The Farmer magazine to write the history of white farmers in Zimbabwe, 1980–2002

Pages 32-44 | Received 29 Mar 2011, Accepted 25 Jul 2012, Published online: 08 Jan 2013

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