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Volume 63, Number 3, Spring 2017Table of Contents

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View "Ebola in Town": Creating Musical Connections in Liberian Communities during the 2014 Crisis in West Africa
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View David Livingstone and the Myth of African Poverty and Disease: A Close Examination of his Writing on the Pre-Colonial Era by Sjoerd Rijpma (review)
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View Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir: Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American by Okey Ndibe (review)
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View Brazilian–African Diaspora in Ghana: The Tabom, Slavery, Dissonance of Memory, Identity, and Locating Home by Kwame Essien (review)
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Axioms of K. A. Busia, Ghana's 2nd Prime Minister (1969–1972) ed. by Nana A. K. Anane-Agyei (review)

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View Leadership and the Problem of Electoral Democracy in Africa: Case Studies and Theoretical Solutions by E. Ike Udogu (review)
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View Achieving Education for All: Dilemmas in System-Wide Reforms and Learning Outcomes in Africa ed. by Ishmael I. Munene, and: Education in West Africa ed. by Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako (review)
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View Kwame Nkrumah, 1909–1972: A Controversial Visionary ed. by Bea Lundt, and Christoph Marx (review)
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View Mobilizing Musical Performance and Expressive Culture in the Ebola 2014 Epidemic: Introduction
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ISSN | 1527-1978 |
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Print ISSN | 0001-9887 |
Launched on MUSE | 2017-05-13 |
Open Access | No |