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| State aesthetics and state meanings: Political architecture in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire J Gallagher, D Larbi Mpere, YAB N'djoré African Affairs 120 (480), 333-364, 2021 | 12 | 2021 |
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| Why Mugabe won: the 2013 Zimbabwean elections and their aftermath J Gallagher, S Chan Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017 | 8 | 2017 |
