The United States and West Africa : interactions and relations / edited by Alusine Jalloh and Toyin Falola.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jalloh, Alusine, 1963-

Falola, Toyin.

Series:

Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora 1092-5228

Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, 1092-5228

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Relations.

Africa, West--Relations--United States--Congresses.

Africa, West.

United States--Relations--Africa, West--Congresses.

United States.

West Africa.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 477 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2008.

Contents:

West Africa and the United States in historical perspective / Adebayo Oyebade and Toyin Falola

The U.S. consulate and the promotion of trade in Sierra Leone, 1850-80 / Ibrahim Kargbo

Stranded families : free colored responses to Liberian colonization and the formation of Black families in nineteenth-century Richmond, Virginia / John Wess Grant

The Garvey aftermath: the fall, rise, and fall / Ibrahim Sundiata

Economic relations between Nigeria and the United States in the era of British colonial rule, ca. 1900-1950 / Ayodeji Olukoju

The United States' economic and political activities in colonial West Africa / Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani

Developing a "sense of community" : U.S. cultural diplomacy and the place of Africa during the early Cold War period, 1953-64 / Karen B. Bell

African Americans in Ghana and their contributions to "nation building" since 1985 / Kwame Essien

Perspectives on Ghanaians and African Americans / Harold R. Harris

The chasm is wide : unspoken antagonisms between African Americans and West Africans / Fred L. Johnson III

Double consciousness and the homecoming of African Americans : building cultural bridges in West Africa / Bayo Lawal

Sierra Leoneans in America and homeland politics / Alusine Jalloh

The United States and West Africa : the institutionalization of foreign relations in an age of ideological ferment / Peter A. Dumbuya

U.S. foreign policy toward West Africa : democracy, economic development, and security / Andrew I.E. Ewoh

U.S. economic assistance to West Africa / Abdul Karim Bangura

The West African enterprise network : business globalists, interregional trade, and U.S. interventions / Anita Spring

Poverty alleviation in Sierra Leone and the role of U.S. foreign aid : an institutional trap analysis / Stephen Kandeh

Post-Cold War U.S. foreign policy toward Liberia and Sierra Leone / Osman Gbla

The United States and security management in West Africa : a case for cooperative intervention / Olawale Ismail

Radical Islam in the Sahel : implications for U.S. policy and regional stability / Stephen A. Harmon

Undoing oil's curse? : an examination of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline project / Ken Vincent

U.S. foreign policy agenda, 2005-9 : why West Africa barely features / Christopher Ruane.

Notes:

Papers based on an international conference held Apr. 28-30, 2005, convened by the Africa Program, University of Texas at Arlington.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781580462778

1580462774

9781580463089

1580463088

OCLC:

166379802