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I-IV – General Editor’s Preface – Preface – PART ONE Archaeology – Introduction: Some Formulations on the Prehistory of West Africa – Processes of Coastal Evolution in West Africa During the Quaternary – The Status of Guinea Coast ?aleoarchaeological Knowledge as Seen from Legon – Excavations at Rim, North-Central Upper Volta: A Paleoecological Study – The Origins and Domestication of Yams in Africa – The Kintampo Culture and Its Place in the Economic Prehistory of West Africa – Archaeological Data on the Origins of Cultivation in the Southwestern Sahara and Their Implications for West Africa – Comments on the Advent of Plant Cultivation in West Africa – History of Crops and Peoples in North Cameroon to A.D. 1900 – The Sahara as a Center of Ceramic Dispersion in Northern Africa – Archaeology East of the Niger: A Review of Cultural-Historical Developments – The Ntereso Culture in Ghana – The Emergence of Iron Technology in West Africa, with Special Emphasis on the ?ok Culture of Nigeria – The Geographic Distribution of Footed Bowls in the Upper and Middle Niger Region – Speculations on Functions of Some Prehistoric Archaeological Materials from Sierra Leone – PART TWO History – Introduction: Research Trends in West African History – Prolegomena to the Study of the Culture History of the Igbo-speaking Peoples of Nigeria – An Ethnohistorical Reconstruction of Traditional Igbo Society – Old Akyem and the Origins of Akyems Abuakwa and Kotoku 1675-1775 – Administration and Trade in the Akwamu Empire, 1681-1730 – The Dynamics and Symbolism of Idoma Kingship – Gao and the Almoravids: A Hypothesis – Timbuktu: A Case Study of the Role of Legend in History – The Julas in Western Sudanese History: Long-Distance Traders and Developers of Resources – Slave Acquisition and Delivery in Precolonial Hausaland – Accommodation and Assimilation in the Landlord-Stranger Relationship – Some Paradoxes of Pacification: Senegal and France in the 1850’s and 1860’s – Changing Perspectives on African Resistance Movements and the Case of the Baule Peoples – Nation Building, Ethnicity, And the New Imperialism: Dilemmas of Political Development in Liberia – Long-Term Structural Change in the Economy of Central Niger – Biographical Notes – Index of Names – Index of Subjects
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