Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One. Trade and Politics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
6. 1 West Africa and the United States in Historical Perspective 17
7. 2 The U.S. Consulate and the Promotion of Trade in Sierra Leone, 1850–80 38
8. 3 Stranded Families: Free Colored Responses to Liberian Colonization and the Formation of Black Families in Nineteenth-Century Richmond, Virginia 61
9. 4 The Garvey Aftermath: The Fall, Rise, and Fall 75
10. 5 Economic Relations between Nigeria and the United States in the Era of British Colonial Rule, ca. 1900–1950 90
11. 6 The United States’ Economic and Political Activities in Colonial West Africa 112
12. Part Two. Forging Cultural Connections America in Africa
13. 7 Developing a “Sense of Community” U.S. Cultural Diplomacy and the Place of Africa during the Early Cold War Period, 1953–64 125
14. 8 African Americans in Ghana and Their Contributions to “Nation Building” since 1985 147
15. 9 Perspectives on Ghanaians and African Americans 174
16. Part Three. Forging Cultural Connections Africa in America
17. 10 The Chasm Is Wide: Unspoken Antagonisms between African Americans and West Africans 189
18. 11 Double Consciousness and the Homecoming of African Americans: Building Cultural Bridges in West Africa 200
19. 12 Sierra Leoneans in America and Homeland Politics 214
20. Part Four. U.S. Political and Economic Interests in West Africa
21. 13 The United States and West Africa: The Institutionalization of Foreign Relations in an Age of Ideological Ferment 237
22. 14 U.S. Foreign Policy toward West Africa: Democracy, Economic Development, and Security 255
23. 15 U.S. Economic Assistance to West Africa 268
24. 16 The West African Enterprise Network: Business Globalists, Interregional Trade, and U.S. Interventions 305
25. 17 Poverty Alleviation in Sierra Leone and the Role of U.S. Foreign Aid: An Institutional Trap Analysis 325
26. 18 Post–Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy toward Liberia and Sierra Leone 355
27. Part Five: Looking toward the Future: U.S.–West African Linkages in the Twenty-first Century
28. 19 The United States and Security Management in West Africa: A Case for Cooperative Intervention 373
29. 20 Radical Islam in the Sahel: Implications for U.S. Policy and Regional Stability 396
30. 21 Undoing Oil’s Curse? An Examination of the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project 423
31. 22 U.S. Foreign Policy Agenda, 2005–9: Why West Africa Barely Features 443
32. Contributors 453
33. Index 461