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Singing the Law : Oral Jurisprudence and the Crisis of Colonial Modernity in East African Literature. Peter Leman

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Author: Peter Leman
Date: 31 Mar 2020
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Language: English
Format: Hardback::272 pages, ePub
ISBN10: 1789621135
ISBN13: 9781789621136
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