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Independency and Islam: The Nigerian Aladuras and some Muslim Comparisons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

Humphrey J. Fisher
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The Journal of African History , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 1970 , pp. 269 - 277
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