The United States and West Africa

The first volume devoted to interrogating the complex relationship -- both historic and contemporary -- between the United States and West Africa.

Introduction - Alusine Jalloh and Toyin Falola and Amanda WarnockWest Africa and the United States in Historical Perspective - Toyin Falola and Adebayo OyebadeThe U.S. Consulate and the Promotion of Trade in Sierra Leone, 1850-80 - Ibrahim KargboStranded Families: Free Colored Responses to Liberian Colonization and the Formation of Black Families in Nineteenth-Century Richmond, Virginia - John Wess Grant PhDThe Garvey Aftermath: The Fall, Rise, and Fall - Ibrahim Sundiata PhDEconomic Relations between Nigeria and the United States in the Era of British Colonial Rule, ca. 1900-1950 - Ayodeji OlukojuThe United States' Economic and Political Activities in Colonial West Afric a - Hakeem I. TijaniDeveloping a "Sense of Community": U.S. Cultural Diplomacy and the Place of Africa during the Early Cold War Period, 1953-64 - Karen B. BellAfrican Americans in Ghana and Their Contributions to "Nation Building" sin since 1985 - Kwame EssienPerspectives on Ghanaians and African Americans - Harold R. HarrisThe Chasm Is Wide: Unspoken Antagonisms between African Americans and West Africans - Fred L. Johnson IIIDouble Consciousness and the Home-Coming of African Americans: Building Cul tural Bridges in West Africa - Bayo LawalSierra Leoneans in America and Homeland Politics - Alusine JallohThe United States and West Africa: The Institutionalization of Foreign Rela Relations in an Age of Ideological Ferment - Peter A. DumbuyaU.S. Foreign Policy toward West Africa: Democracy, Economic Development, an d Security - Andrew I. E. EwohU.S. Economic Assistance to West Africa - Abdul Karim BanguraThe West African Enterprise Network: Business Globalists, Interregional Tra de, and U.S. Interventions - Anita SpringPoverty Alleviation in Sierra Leone and the Role of U.S. Foreign Aid: An In stitutional Trap Analysis - Stephen KandehPost-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy toward Liberia and Sierra Leone - Osman GblaThe United States and Security Management in West Africa: A Case for Cooper rative Intervention - Olawale IsmailRadical Islam in the Sahel: Implications for U.S. Policy and Regional Stabi lity - Stephen A. HarmonUndoing Oil's Curse? An Examination of the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project - Ken VincentU.S. Foreign Policy Agenda, 2005-9: Why West Africa Barely Features - Christopher Ruane