United States and West Africa

TOYIN FALOLA is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History and Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin, TX. He is the series editor of the University of Rochester Press' series Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. Falola is a recipient of many distinguished lifetime awards, including 28 honorary doctorates. TOYIN FALOLA is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History and Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin, TX. He is the series editor of the University of Rochester Press' series Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. Falola is a recipient of many distinguished lifetime awards, including 28 honorary doctorates.

• Introduction - Alusine Jalloh and Toyin Falola and Amanda WarnockWest Africa and the United States in Historical Perspective - Toyin Falola and Adebayo OyebadeThe U.S. Consulate and the Promotion of Trade in Sierra Leone, 1850-80 - Ibrahim KargboStranded Families: Free Colored Responses to Liberian Colonization and the Formation of Black Families in Nineteenth-Century Richmond, Virginia - John Wess Grant PhDThe Garvey Aftermath: The Fall, Rise, and Fall - Ibrahim Sundiata PhDEconomic Relations between Nigeria and the United States in the Era of British Colonial Rule, ca. 1900-1950 - Ayodeji OlukojuThe United States' Economic and Political Activities in Colonial West Afric a - Hakeem I. TijaniDeveloping a "Sense of Community": U.S. Cultural Diplomacy and the Place of Africa during the Early Cold War Period, 1953-64 - Karen B. BellAfrican Americans in Ghana and Their Contributions to "Nation Building" sin since 1985 - Kwame EssienPerspectives on Ghanaians and African Americans - Harold R. HarrisThe Chasm Is Wide: Unspoken Antagonisms between African Americans and West Africans - Fred L. Johnson IIIDouble Consciousness and the Home-Coming of African Americans: Building Cul tural Bridges in West Africa - Bayo LawalSierra Leoneans in America and Homeland Politics - Alusine JallohThe United States and West Africa: The Institutionalization of Foreign Rela Relations in an Age of Ideological Ferment - Peter A. DumbuyaU.S. Foreign Policy toward West Africa: Democracy, Economic Development, an d Security - Andrew I. E. EwohU.S. Economic Assistance to West Africa - Abdul Karim BanguraThe West African Enterprise Network: Business Globalists, Interregional Tra de, and U.S. Interventions - Anita SpringPoverty Alleviation in Sierra Leone and the Role of U.S. Foreign Aid: An In stitutional Trap Analysis - Stephen KandehPost-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy toward Liberia and Sierra Leone - Osman GblaThe United States and Security Management in West Africa: A Case for Cooper rative Intervention - Olawale IsmailRadical Islam in the Sahel: Implications for U.S. Policy and Regional Stabi lity - Stephen A. HarmonUndoing Oil's Curse? An Examination of the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project - Ken VincentU.S. Foreign Policy Agenda, 2005-9: Why West Africa Barely Features - Christopher Ruane

As with any good collection, this one makes a strong contribution on its own merits, but also should serve to push forward the literature by inspiring future research.