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  • From the Editors
  • Ralph Faulkingham and Mitzi Goheen

Periodically, we wish to thank in the pages of the African Studies Review the truly unsung heroes of our enterprise: those scholars who review manuscripts for us. As editors with our own specific areas of expertise, we could not possibly evaluate credibly the substance of most of the manuscripts submitted to our journal. Instead we rely on our reviewers.

The database of more than fifteen hundred reviewers has grown from its roots in the 1997 membership list of the African Studies Association. Over the years we have added hundreds of names on the recommendation of those on the list, who tell us in effect, “I cannot review this manuscript right now, but you should contact so-and-so.” And we have deleted as many more, when contact details became obsolete. While the African Studies Review is published by the African Studies Association, we do not limit our database of reviewers to Association members.

If you would like to review manuscripts for the African Studies Review, kindly visit the journal’s Web site at http://www.umass.edu/anthro/asr/form.html, and complete and submit the simple questionnaire.

When we decide to review a manuscript, we query our database of reviewers to match the topic, country(ies), and discipline of the manuscript with the expertise represented by our reviewers. We try not to ask any one reviewer to review more than one manuscript per year. To protect the integrity of the review process, we do not reveal to reviewers the name of the author of the manuscript, nor do we tell our authors who the reviewers are. [End Page v]

The results humble us. Time after time, with a passion for scholarship and a letter from us as their only thanks, reviewers write extraordinarily helpful reviews—helpful to us for making our decision, and helpful to authors as they go into the revision process. Consistently, our reviewers offer detailed and constructive suggestions for sources, organization, ideas, and revision. We share all our reviews with the manuscript authors, whether the manuscript is accepted for publication or not. In this way, authors, editors, and reviewers together support and advance the scholarship of African studies.

We are pleased to publically acknowledge our manuscript reviewers’ good work by listing the names of the individuals who sent us manuscript reviews between January 1, 2003, and December 31, 2007. This list of 464 individuals represents a total of 844 reviews of 275 manuscripts. [End Page vi]

  • Ismail Abdalla

  • Olayiwola Abegunrin

  • Rowland Abiodun

  • Arthur Abraham

  • Rita Abrahamsen

  • Dauda Abubakar

  • R.A.C.E. Achara

  • E. Obiri Addo

  • Olufunke Adeboye

  • Adeleke Adeeko

  • Clement Adibe

  • Shedrack Agbakwa

  • Mario Aguilar

  • Jude Aguwa

  • Tavy Aherne

  • Akanni Akinyemi

  • Kwabena Akurang-Parry

  • Peter Alegi

  • Ari Allansson

  • Richard B. Allen

  • Hayat Alvi

  • John Ambenge

  • Inge Amundsen

  • Patricia Anafi

  • Michael Anda

  • Connie Anthony

  • Seth Appiah-Opoku

  • Laura Arntson

  • Leonardo Arriola

  • Daniel Avorgbedor

  • Victor Azarya

  • Chukwuma Azuonye

  • Esi Bani

  • Franco Barchiesi

  • Teresa Barnes

  • Martin Batana

  • Robert Baum

  • Charles Becker

  • Heike Becker

  • Stephano Bellucci

  • Alexander Bick

  • Jean Godefroy Bidima

  • David Black

  • Robert Blewett

  • Morten Boas

  • Kwame A. Boateng

  • Adams B. Bodomo

  • Elias Bongmba

  • Catherine Boone

  • Tristan Anne Borer

  • Joyce Boss

  • Karl Botchway

  • Louise Manon Bourgault

  • Joye Bowman

  • Tunde Brimah

  • Inge Brinkman

  • Douglas Brown

  • Michelle Brown

  • Stephen Brown

  • Scott Brunger

  • Stephen Burgess

  • Jennie Burnet

  • Glen Bush

  • Michael D. Callahan

  • Patricia Campbell

  • Robert Cancel

  • Tatiana Carayannis

  • Neil Carey

  • Andrew Carlson

  • Geert Castryck

  • Maria Cattell

  • Patricia-Pia Celerier

  • Brenda Chalfin

  • Robert Charlick

  • Ashwini Chhatre

  • Gloria Chuku

  • Diane Ciekawy

  • Mamadou Cisse

  • Andrew Clark

  • John F. Clark

  • Carrol F. Coates

  • Jim Cobbe

  • Alan Cobley

  • Karen Coen Flynn

  • Jennifer Coffman

  • Herman Cohen

  • Robert Collins

  • Allan Cooper

  • Barbara Cooper

  • Raymond Copson

  • Matthew Costello

  • Helen Rachel Cousins

  • Michaeline Crichlow

  • Don Crummey

  • Ginette Curry

  • Kwaku Danso-Boafo

  • Sonja Darlington

  • Jean Davison

  • Lynda Day

  • Thomas R. De Gregori

  • Pounthioun Diallo

  • Robert Dibie

  • Jeremiah Dibua

  • Susan Diduk

  • Mamadou Diouf

  • W. Graeme Donovan

  • Marion Doro

  • Steven Dorsey

  • Paul Dower

  • Allison Drew

  • Smile Dube

  • D. Elwood Dunn

  • Kevin Dunn

  • Deborah Durham

  • Elizabeth A. Eames

  • Sam Ebow Quainoo

  • Andreas Eckert

  • Carlene Edie

  • Eronini Egbujor

  • Henry Akwo Elonge [End Page vii]

  • Pierre Englebert

  • Zimitri Erasmus

  • Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis

  • Dickson Eyoh

  • Jo Ellen Fair

  • Sally...

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