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422:"Pan-Africanism and 'Pan-Africanism': Some Historical Notes",
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692:"A Guide to the George Shepperson Collection MS Group 206"
584:"Islam in Central Africa: A Historiographical Document",
489:"Mungo Park and the Scottish Contribution to Africa",
828:People educated at The King's School, Peterborough
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294:. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the
756:, 'Notes toward a "Native" Theory of History',
504:"Kipling and the Boer War" in John Goss (ed.),
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438:"Abolitionism and African Political Thought",
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