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Review article

Paul Skandera. Drawing a Map of Africa: Idiom in Kenyan English
[Language in Performance, 26]. Tübingen: Gunter Narr., 2003. XV + 238 pp. EUR 54.00 ISBN 3-8233-5820-0

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Published online: 11 March 2005
https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.26.1.08pol
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