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Nkemnkia, M.N. (2004). “African Vitalogy”: The African Mind and Spirituality. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Imaginatio Creatrix. Analecta Husserliana, vol 83. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2245-X_16
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