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Indigenous practices of environmental sustainability in the Tonga community of southern Zambia
Submitted: 28 April 2016 | Published: 03 November 2016
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Kennedy M. Kanene, Department of Languages and Social Sciences Education, University of Botswana, BotswanaAbstract
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