RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Announcing the Inaugural Edition of the Journal of West African History

Congrats to the editorial team and contributors. Beset with a series of traumatic family problems, I could not submit  my review essay to Harry Odametten. Hopefully I will do so in the future - next issue. This caveat in place, I am somewhat disappointed that the "inaugural edition" is dominated by "non-Africans" just like most Africanist journals! My point is editors of Africanist journals may court "African" historians of Africa. If you pick up anthologies edited by African scholars, there are excellent articles and one wonders why such articles never find their way into Africanist journals! Politics of exclusion you may say. And I speak from experience.  Me I like matter oh!

Kwabena Akurang-Parry

Dept of History

U of Cape Coast, Ghana 

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Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 12:04:28 -0700
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Announcing the Inaugural Edition of the Journal of West African History

Announcing the Inaugural Edition of the Journal of West African History

Founding Editor-in-chief: Nwando Achebe
Associate Editors: Hilary Jones and John Thabiti Willis
Book Review Editor: Harry Odamtten

Volume I, ISSUE I, NOW AVAILABLE!
http://msupress.org/journals/issue/?id=50-21D-5EA

The Journal of West African History (JWAH) is a new interdisciplinary peer-reviewed research journal that publishes the highest quality articles on West African history. Located at the cutting edge of new scholarship on the social, cultural, economic, and political history of West Africa, JWAH fills a representational gap by providing a forum for serious scholarship and debate on women and gender, sexuality, slavery, oral history, popular and public culture, and religion. The editorial board encourages authors to explore a wide range of topical, theoretical, methodological, and empirical perspectives in new and exciting ways. The journal is committed to rigorous thinking and analysis; is international in scope; and offers a critical intervention about knowledge production. Scholarly reviews of current books in the field appear in every issue. And the publication is in both English and French; an abstract in both languages will be provided. Michigan State University Press publishes JWAH in collaboration with the MSU African Studies Center and the History Department.

Editor's Note

Nwando Achebe, "The Birth of a New Journal"

Articles

1. Jan Jansen, "In Defense of Mali's Gold: The Political and Military Organization of the Northern Upper Niger, c. 1650–c. 1850"

2. Ralph A. Austen, "Finding the Historical Wangrin or the Banality of Virtue"

3. Claire Robertson, "We Must Overcome: Genealogy and Evolution of Female Slavery in West Africa"

4. Trevor R. Getz, Lindsay Ehrisman, "The Marriages of Abina Mansah: Escaping the Boundaries of "Slavery" as a Category in Historical Analysis"

5. RETROSPECTIVE: David Robinson, "Reflections on Legitimation and Pedagogy in the "Islamic Revolutions" of West Africa on the Frontiers of the Islamic World"

6. Moses Ochonu, "Caliphate Expansion and Sociopolitical Change in Nineteenth-Century Lower Benue Hinterlands"

Book Reviews

1. Carola Lentz, Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa, Reviewed by Assan Sarr

2. Elizabeth Wrangham, Ghana during the First World War: The Colonial Administration of Sir Hugh Clifford, Reviewed by Kwame Essien

3. Raymond E. Dumett, Imperialism, Economic Development and Social Change in West Africa, Reviewed by Jeffrey S. Ahlman

4. John Iliffe, Obasanjo, Nigeria and the World, Reviewed by Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani

5. Toyin Falola and Saheed Aderinto, Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History, Reviewed by Philip S. Zachernuk

6. David Max Brown and Zola Maseko, The Manuscripts of Timbuktu; Shamil Jeppie and Souleymane Bachir Diagne, The Meanings of Timbuktu; Alexandra Huddleston, 333 Saints: A Life of Scholarship in Timbuktu, Reviewed by David E. Skinner

7. Susan Z. Andrade, The Nation Writ Small: Africa Fictions and Feminisms, 1958–1988, Reviewed by Anne V. Adams

8. Danny Hoffman, The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia, Reviewed by Douglas Thomas

Submissions

The editorial board invites scholars to submit original article-length manuscripts (not exceeding 10,000 words including endnotes, 35 pages in length) accompanied by an abstract that summarizes the argument and significance of the work (not exceeding 150 words). Review essays (not exceeding 1,000 words) should engage the interpretation, meaning, or importance of an author's argument for a wider scholarly audience. Please contact our book review editor at hodamtten@scu.edu for more information. Manuscripts submitted to the Journal of West African History should be submitted online at https://www.rapidreview.com/MSU/CALogon.jsp.

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