Themes in West Africa’s HistoryThere has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africas history. In Themes in West Africas History, editor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and his contributors meet this need, examining key themes in West Africas prehistory to the present through the lenses of their different disciplines. The contents of the book comprise an introduction and thirteen chapters divided into three parts. Each chapter provides an overview of existing literature on major