Journal of West African History 8, No. 1

In This Issue Editor's Introduction Perceptible Pasts and Histories of Perceptions Trevor R. Getz

"As Bitter as Senegalese Mahogany": Mande Perceptions of Violence on the Road to Glory David C. Conrad

Contemporary Africans Meet Timeless Africa: The Conflicted Impact of Asadata Dafora's "African Operas" on Pan-African Work in the United States, 1930-50 Philip Serge Zachernuk

In This Issue



Editor's Introduction

Perceptible Pasts and Histories of Perceptions

Trevor R. Getz

"As Bitter as Senegalese Mahogany": Mande Perceptions of Violence on the Road to Glory

David C. Conrad

Contemporary Africans Meet Timeless Africa: The Conflicted Impact of Asadata Dafora's "African Operas" on Pan-African Work in the United States, 1930-50

Philip Serge Zachernuk

African Traditional Healing and Biomedicine: A Reconstruction of Colonial and Postindependence Health-Care History under Kwame Nkrumah, 1951-66

Samuel Adu-Gyamfi and Eugenia Anderson

Wealth in Knowledge: Spiritual Service and Political Power in Precolonial Asante

Emmanuel Akyeampong and David Owusu-Ansah

"The River Is Not to Be Crossed": Anglo-French Boundary and Konkomba Cross-Border Mobility on the Ghana-Togo Border, 1918-30s

Joseph Udimal Kachim

Book Reviews

Power, Culture and Modernity in Nigeria: Beyond the Colony, by Oluwatoyin Oduntan

Reviewed by Katharina A. Oke

Beyond Aesthetics: Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions, by Wole Soyinka

Reviewed by Haythem Guesmi

Colonial Transactions: Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon, Florence Bernault

Reviewed by Jeremy Dell

Essai d'histoire locale. L'oeuvre d'un historien guinéen à l'époque coloniale/The Work of a Guinean Historian during the Colonial Period, by Djiguiba Camara

Reviewed by Douglas W. Leonard