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Critical Interventions
Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture
Volume 10, 2016 - Issue 2: African Art and Economics
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Recollections

The Currency of Memory: Ndidi Dike's Waka-into-Bondage and the Materiality of the Slave Trade in Nigeria and Britain

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