See sowei on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2012, L. Day, Gender and Power in Sierra Leone: Women Chiefs of the Last Two Centuries, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2013, Frances Harding, The Performance Arts in Africa: A Reader, →ISBN, page 140:",
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