In this Issue

Table of Contents

People Have Succeeded in Overcoming Tremendous Space, But Not the Distance between One Person and Another

Nwando Achebe
pp. v-viii
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Articles

"The Humble Petition of Johana Nyewuame Bekrah": Becoming/Being Gã, Straddling "Spaces," and Negotiating Boundaries in the Gold Coast Christian "Model Town" (Abokobi), ca. 1860–1980

Ernest Sasu Kwame Sewordor
pp. 1-27
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Liberia's Belle Yella Prison Camp (1910–1990): Repression, Stigma, and Forced Labor in the Heart of the Rainforest

Timothy D. L. Nevin
pp. 29-61
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"In the Nature of a Crusade": Wartime Extraction and the Seeds of Industrialization in the Gold Coast

Keri Lambert
pp. 63-90
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CDC Company Towns in Cameroon: A Case of Shaping Built Space to Articulate Power and Social Control in Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives

Ambe J. Njoh, Esther P. Chie, Liora Bigon
pp. 91-112
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Petitioning about the Revolutionary Nation: Social History and Communication under the Early Kérékou Regime in Benin, 1975–1977

Alexander Keese
pp. 113-141
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Book Reviews

African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa by Michael A. Gomez (review)

Jody A. Benjamin
pp. 142-146
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A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green (review)

Katharina A. Oke
pp. 147-149
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Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision Making in the Age of Abolition by Sandra E. Greene (review)

J. M. Davey
pp. 150-152
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Fiju di Terra. La crise casamançaise racontée à mes enfants by Xavier Diatta (review)

Pape Chérif Bertrand Bassène
pp. 153-155
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Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions by Henry B. Lovejoy (review)

Evan C. Rothera
pp. 156-158
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