Journal of West African History 4, no. 2

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Editor's Introduction
Nwando Achebe, “A Spectator Cannot Stand in One Position to Appreciate the Beauty of the Masquerade Dance—Igbo Proverb”

Articles
Nathan Carpenter, “Ransom as Political Strategy: Captivity beyond Commercial Transaction on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries”

Kalala Ngalamulume, “The ‘Devès Affair’ in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal: A Critical Assessment of the Sources, 1902–1911”

Stacey Hynd, “Pickpockets, Pilot Boys, and Prostitutes: The Construction of Juvenile Delinquency in the Gold Coast [Colonial Ghana], c. 1929–57”

Kevin S. Fridy, “A Freezing Moment in Ghana’s Party System: How Two Thorns in Nkrumah’s Side Framed Elections in the Fourth Republic”

Beverly Mack, “Fodiology: African American Heritage Connections to West African Islam”

Book Reviews
West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Soldier Slaves in the Atlantic World, 1807–1844, reviewed by Crystal Nicole Eddins

Muslim Interpreters in Colonial Senegal, 1850–1920: Mediations of Knowledge and Power in the Lower and Middle Senegal River Valley, reviewed by Joseph Fronczak

Understanding West Africa’s Ebola Epidemic: Towards a Political Economy, reviewed by Matthew Newsom Kerr