[...] 'Camara stands alongside powerful thinkers such as Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Joseph Ki-Zerbo, and Boubou Hama in describing the uniquenessand complexity of sociopolitical thought in West Africa. Bertho and Rodet have done a great service in providing this material to readers at the undergraduate, graduate, or scholarly levels. The volume, well-produced and edited by the Brill team and highly accessible in its bilingual form, will yield years of further insights into the place of Islamic genealogical, juridical, and political connections among West African groups previously thought of as largely animist, the role of slavery and violence in postcolonial West African societies prior to full-scale French arrival, and local processes of intellectual production'.[...]Douglas W. Leonard, United States Air Force Academy, in Journal of West African History, Volume 8.1, (2022), pp. 176-178