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Being Àyàn in a Modernizing Nigeria

January 2015

In book: The Yorùbá God of Drumming: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wood That Talks (pp.192-215)
Chapter: 8
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Editors: Amanda Villepastour

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Debra Klein

Gavilan College

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