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Shaka and the Limits of Colonial Invention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

Peter Geschiere
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African Studies Review , Volume 44 , Issue 2: Ways of Seeing: Beyond the New Nativism: A Special Issue , September 2001 , pp. 167 - 176
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Copyright © African Studies Association 2001

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