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Journal of West African History 2, no. 1

Journal of West African History 2, no. 1

Current price: $35.00
Publication Date: March 1st, 2016
Publisher:
MSU Press Journals
ISBN:
9781684300280
Pages:
224

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IN THIS ISSUE

Editor's Note
Nwando Achebe, A Good Habit that Lasts More than a Year May Turn into a Custom

Articles
Pierluigi Valsecchi, "The Fall of Kaku Aka: Social and Political Change in the Mid-Nineteenth- Century Western Gold Coast"
David E. Skinner, "The Influence of Islam in Sierra Leone History: Institutions, Practices, and Leadership"
Erik S. McDuffie, "'A New Day Has Dawned for the UNIA’: Garveyism, the Diasporic Midwest, and West Africa, 1920–80"
Sabine Jell-Bahlsen, "Crime, Community, and Human Rights in Southeastern Nigeria, Then and Now"
Cheikh Anta Babou, "Negotiating the Boundaries of Power: Abdoulaye Wade, the Muridiyya, and State Politics in Senegal, 2000–2012"

Book Reviews
Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora, Reviewed by Dianna Bell
Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa, Reviewed by Ama Boakyewa
Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature, Reviewed by Joseph McLaren
Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers: History, Politics, and Land Ownership in Northern Ghana, Reviewed by James Lance
Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, Reviewed by Lumumba H. Shabaka
Highlife Saturday Night: Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana, Reviewed by Gavin Webb
The Problem of Slavery as History: A Global Approach, Reviewed by Daniel B. Domingues da Silva
When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900–1958, Reviewed by Jaqueline-Bethel Mougoué