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Book Title: Meditations On African Literature
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Dubem Okafor
Publication Name: Meditations on African Literature
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication Year: 2001
Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets Ser.
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
