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Translating African thought and literature: postcolonial glottopolitics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 November 2018

Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
Pierre-Philippe Fraiture*
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University of Warwick
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p-p.fraiture@warwick.ac.uk
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 81 , Special Issue 3: Translating African Thought and Literature , October 2018 , pp. 405 - 412
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