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Sabrina Billings, Language, globalization and the making of a Tanzanian beauty queen. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2014. Pp.viii, 222. Pb. $49.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Katrina Daly Thompson
Katrina Daly Thompson*
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African Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin-MadisonMadison, WI 53706, USAkatrina.daly.thompson@wisc.edu
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Language in Society , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , April 2016 , pp. 305 - 308
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