Description: Suitable for classroom use, this comprehensive volume demonstrates social, economic, and cultural changes on the African continent and internationally.
Brief description: Nwando Achebe is the Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History at Michigan State University and the founding editor of the Journal of West African History.
Review Quotes: "Stands alone for its comprehensive content and multidisciplinary approach. Readers will appreciate the significant amount of scholarship on and by African women, the evolution of that literature and its dynamic relationship with intellectual currents, and social, economic, and cultural changes on the continent and internationally."--Judith A. Byfield, Cornell University