William H. Worger - A Companion to African History

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Edited by

William H. Worger,
Charles Ambler, and
Nwando Achebe

This edition first published 2019
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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Worger, William H., editor. | Ambler, Charles, editor. | Achebe, Nwando, 1970 editor.
Title: A companion to African history / edited by William H. Worger, Charles Ambler, Nwando Achebe.
Description: 1st edition. | Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2019. | Series: Blackwell companions to history | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2018016967 (print) | LCCN 2018026788 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119063575 (Adobe PDF) | ISBN 9781119063506 (ePub) | ISBN 9780470656310 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: AfricaHistory. | AfricaCivilization. | AfricaSocial conditions.
Classification: LCC DT14 (ebook) | LCC DT14 .C653 2019 (print) | DDC 960dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018016967

Cover Image: Vessel with rainmaking wands, Mumuye peoples (?), Nigeria, Collection of Fowler Museum at UCLA. Photograph by Don Cole.
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Nwando Achebe, the Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History, is an awardwinning historian at Michigan State University. She is founding editorinchief of the Journal of West African History. Achebe received her PhD from University of California, Los Angeles, in 2000. In 1996 and 1998 she was a Ford Foundation and FulbrightHays ScholarinResidence at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Her research interests involve the use of oral history in the study of women, gender, and sexuality in Nigeria. Her first book, Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings: Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland, 19001960 was published in 2005, and her second book, The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe (2011), which won three book awards (AidooSnyder, Barbara Penny Kanner, and Gita Chaudhuri), is a fulllength critical biography of the only female warrant chief and king in British Africa. Achebe has received prestigious grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, WennerGren, Woodrow Wilson, FulbrightHays, Ford Foundation, World Health Organization, and National Endowment for the Humanities.

Charles Ambler is professor of history and dean of the graduate school at the University of Texas at El Paso. He has recently coedited