4. Africa: LES CULTES DE POSSESSION EN AFRIQUE NOIRE ET LE BORI HAUSA (Possession Cults in Black Africa and the Hausa "Bori"), by J. Lombard. Psychopathologie Africaine, 3: 3 (1967), 419- 39. (In French.) Export

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