The United States and West Africa
Subtitle: Interactions and Relations (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora)
Contributors: Alusine Jalloh (Editor); Toyin Falola (Editor)
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: September 25, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 477
ISBN-13: 9781580462778
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; African; Literary Collections / African
Description: Over the last several decades, historians have conducted extensive research into contact between the United States and West Africa during the era of the transatlantic trade. Yet we still understand relatively little about more recent relations between the two areas. This multidisciplinary volume presents the most comprehensive analysis of the U.S.-West African relationship to date, filling a significant gap in the literature by examining the social, cultural, political, and economic bonds that have, in recent years, drawn these two world regions into increasingly closer contact. Beginning with examinations of factors that linked the nations during European colonial rule of Africa, and spanning to discussions of U.S. foreign policy with regard to West Africa from the Cold War through the end of the twentieth century and beyond, these essays constitute the first volume devoted to interrogating the complex relationship -- both historic and contemporary -- between the United States and West Africa. -- Publisher description.