Journal of West African History Announcement Type Journal Location MI, United States Announcing Journal of West African History, Volume 10, Issue 1 Founding Editor-in-Chief: Nwando AchebeAssociate Editors: Saheed Aderinto, Trevor R. Getz, Toby Green, Vincent Hiribarren, Harry Nii Koney Odamtten. Book Review Editors: Mark Deets, Madina Thiam, Nana Kesse.  Volume 10, Issue I, NOW AVAILABLE! The Journal of West African History (JWAH) is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed research journal that publishes the highest quality articles on West African history. Located at the cutting edge of new scholarship on the social, cultural, economic, and political history of West Africa, JWAH fills a representational gap by providing a forum for serious scholarship and debate on women and gender, sexuality, slavery, oral history, popular and public culture, and religion. The editorial board encourages authors to explore a wide range of topical, theoretical, methodological, and empirical perspectives in new and exciting ways. The journal is committed to rigorous thinking and analysis; is international in scope; and offers a critical intervention about knowledge production. Scholarly reviews of current books in the field appear in every issue. JWAH publishes primarily in English but recently published its first French issue. JWAH also plans to publish articles in Portuguese and is experimenting with African-language abstracts in forthcoming issues. JWAH is published by Michigan State University Press. Editor's Introduction  Nwando Achebe, “Amaechina” Articles Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, “Progressive Empire?: Liberian Agriculture, Black American Farming Experts and World War II Engaging Africa and the World” Emmanuel Asiedu-Acquah, “Engaging Africa and the World”  Caroline Maguire, “Artification and Decolonization at the Musée d’Art Africain de l’IFAN, Dakar” Sarah Zimmerman, “Legacies of French Colonial Militarization and Gender-Based Violence in the Sahel” Riina Turtio, “Soviet Military Assistance to Mali and Guinea, 1958-1980” Book Reviews Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria: Beautiful, Monstrous, Ridiculous (by Nimi Wariboko), Reviewed by Tara Hollies. State-building and National Militaries in Postcolonial West Africa: Decolonizing the Means of Coercion 1958–1974  (by Riina Turtio), Reviewed by Joe Gazeley. Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria (by Olufemi Vaughan), Reviewed by Lisa Lindsay. Mieux vaut tard que jamais: Sur les traces de six tirailleurs guinéens fusillés à Clamecy en juin 1940 (by Daniel Couriol), Reviewed by Madia Thomson. Decolonizing Independence: Statecraft in Nigeria's First Republic and Israeli Interventions (by Lynn Schler), reviewed by Rouven Kunstmann. Submissions The editorial board invites scholars to submit original article-length manuscripts (not exceeding 10,000 words including endnotes) accompanied by an abstract that summarizes the argument and significance of the work. Review essays should engage the interpretation, meaning, or importance of an author’s argument for a wider scholarly audience. Please contact our Book Review Editors at mark.deets@aucegypt.edu, madina.thiam@nyu.edu, or nkesse@clarku.edu for more information.  Contact Email:jwah@msu.edu