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The Journal of West African History (JWAH) is a new, important, initiative in the field of African Studies published by Michigan State University Press in collaboration with Michigan State University’s African Studies Center and History Department. An interdisciplinary peer-reviewed research journal, JWAH is located at the cutting edge of new scholarship on the social, cultural, economic, and political history of West Africa and publishes the highest quality articles on West African history. It fills a representational gap by providing a forum for serious scholarship and debate on women and gender, sexuality, slavery, oral history, popular and public culture, and religion.
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Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 2015Editorial Board
Editor-In-Chief
Nwando Achebe
Associate Editors
Hilary Jones
John Thabiti Willis
Book Review Editor
Harry Odamtten
Editorial Assistant and Office Manager
Joseph M. Davey
Executive Editorial Board
Walter Hawthorne
Trevor Getz
Steven Pierce
Ghislaine Lydon
Cheikh Babou
Kristin Mann
Emmanuel Acheampong
Robert Baum
Rudolf Pell Gaudio
Stephan Miescher
Carolyn Brown
Advisory Board
Bolanle Awe
Obaro Ikime
Obioma Nnaemeka
Martin Klein
Boubacar Barry
Takyiawaa Manuh
Sati Fwatshak
Penda Mbow
Ugo Nwokeji
Sandra Greene
Ibrahima Thioub
Joseph Inikori
David Robinson
Ato Quayson
