From the Editors

This issue marks the end of Fi Herbert's role as the Book Review Editor of the African Studies Review. We will miss her a lot!

Eugenia Herbert, Professor Emeritus of History at Mount Holyoke College, took on the book review editor task just after her retirement as a faculty member, and brought enormous vision and effectiveness to her new career. Her first issue was April 1998, and the current issue marks the 27th. In these nine volumes, Fi introduced and developed the book review essay which has become a feature ASR readers depend upon, and she has commissioned hundreds of book reviews. Certainly, Fi would credit the rising reputation of the ASR to the extraordinary skills and insights of the book reviewers themselves, yet she brought so many good reviews on Africana to print – and so quickly, and all of us who depend on credible book reviews for our own scholarship on Africa are in her debt.

Thank you, Fi!