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Capitalizing Africa: high finance from below

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2022

James Christopher Mizes*
Affiliation:
Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales, Université Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France
Kevin P. Donovan*
Affiliation:
Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

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Capitalizing Africa
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