Publisher's Synopsis
In This IssueEditor's Introduction A West African Spider-Man and the Enduring Concept of "the Stranger" Mark W. DeetsArticles Colonial Labor Policy and North-South Migration in Ghana Mariama Marciana Kuusaana Beyond Resistance: Therapeutic Itinerary in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal between Indigenous and Scientific Medicine, 1820-1920 Kalala Ngalamulume Modernizing Royals and Capitalists of Kumase: The Ashanti Turf Club, 1950-1980s George M. Bob-Milliar and Ali Yakubu Nyaaba The Challenge of Constructing Citizenship in a Multiracial Society in Postcolonial Sierra Leone: Rethinking the Case of John Joseph Akar Peter Alpha Dumbuya Devising and Disclosing an Autobiographical Self: Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings in Asante and Ghana Tom McCaskieBook ReviewsKimoukro. Sanctuaire de l'houphouËtisme, by Emmanuel Y. N'Goran Reviewed by Aliou LyColonial Suspects: Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Society in Interwar French West Africa, by Kathleen Keller Reviewed by John CropperMilitarizing Marriage: West African Soldiers' Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire, by Sarah J. Zimmerman Reviewed by Bright AlozieCountless Blessings: A History of Childbirth and Reproduction in the Sahel, by Barbara M. Cooper Reviewed by Elke E. StockreiterConverging on Cannibals: Terrors of Slaving in Atlantic Africa, 1509-1670, by Jared Staller Reviewed by Christopher M. Blakley.