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Wikipedia [1:54]
– The Skeptical Wikipedia project is not confined to just English readers/speakers.
– Mid May 2013, they managed to get the Neil deGrasse Tyson Wikipedia page on the front page of Portuguese Wikipedia.
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Skeptical Humanities
– Find more informat at the website: Skeptical Humanities.
– Drewal, H. J. “Interpretation, Invention and Representation in the Worship of Mami Wata.” Journal of Folklore Research 25.1 (1988): 101-39.
– “Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas.” African Arts (2008): 60-83.
– “Mermaids, Mirrors, and Snake Charmers: Igbo Mami Wata Shrines.” African Arts 21.2 (1988): 38-96, 96.
– Fabowale, Yinka. “Strange creature among frozen fish causes stir in Ibadan.” The Sun (24 July 2013).
– Frank, Barbara. “Permitted and Prohibited Wealth: Commodity-Possessing Spirits, Economic Morals, and the Goddess Mami Wata in West Africa.” Ethnology 34.4 (Fall 1995).
– Hill, Sharon. “Panic Over Alleged Mermaid Found in Nigerian Town.” Doubtful News (25 June 2013).
– “Mami Wata.” (Wikipedia)
– Olanrewaju, Taiwo. “Commotion over ‘mermaid’ in Ibadan“ Nigerian Tribune (25 July 2013).
– “Ibadan ‘Mermaid’: Fish Seller’s Daughter Attack, House Vandalised.” (25 July 2013).
– Salmons, J. “Mammy Wata.“ African Arts 10.3 (1977): 8-15, 87-88.
– “Police Dispel Reports Of Mermaid In Ibadan, Says Fish Was Baby-Octopus.” Information Nigeria (24 July 2013).
– Transcript: “Mami Wata and the Nigerian ‘Mermaid’ Riot”
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