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Trade and states in Somali borderlands

Brokerage in the borderlands: the political economy of livestock intermediaries in northern Kenya

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Pages 168-188 | Received 28 Dec 2019, Accepted 05 Oct 2020, Published online: 16 Nov 2020

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