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Board of Trustees, Boston University
Front MatterSource: The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2 (1990), pp. 230-298Published by: Boston University African Studies CenterStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/219334 .
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THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES
EDITOR Norman R. Bennett Boston University
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Roger Pasquier Universit6 de Paris Robert O. Collins University of California Santa Barbara Creighton Gabel Boston University Marcel Luwel Mus6e Royal de l'Afrique Centrale Tervuren Godfrey Muriuki University of Nairobi
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Daniel F. McCall Boston University Graham W. Irwin Columbia University Roy C. Bridges University of Aberdeen Robert I. Rotberg Tufts University Donald Crummey University of Illinois Sara Berry Boston University Frederick Cooper University of Michigan Research Assistant Anne Brown
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THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES
Volume 23 1990 Number 2
Copyright 1990 by the Board of Trustees of Boston University
ARTICLES
"THE COMMON PEOPLE WERE DIVIDED": MONARCHY, ARISTOCRACY, AND POLITICAL FACTIONALISM IN THE KINGDOM OF WHYDAH, 1671-1727, by Robin Law 201
SALTS OF THE WESTERN SAHARA: MYTHS, MYSTERIES, AND HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE, by E. Ann McDougall 231
CAPITAOS AND CHIEFS: ORAL TRADITION AND COLONIAL SOCIETY IN MALAWI, by Tony Woods 259
THE "BLOODLESS CONQUEST" IN SOUTHEASERN GHANA: THE HUZA AND TERRITORIAL EXPANSION OF THE KROBO IN THE 19TH CENTURY," by Louis E. Wilson 269
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Koehn, Public Policy and Administration in Africa: Lessons from Nigeria, by DONALD C. WILLIAMS 385
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 388
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