Africa Encountered

'Taken as a whole, the articles...give readers a taste of Hair’s thoughtful (and at times pugnacious) approach to African history.' African Studies Review '...this collection illustrates why Hair is so much appreciated as a scholar by historians of West Africa. His meticulous eye for detail and his unstinting efforts to find the very last bit of evidence about the issue he studies are hallmarks of every single paper in the collection.' International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 23, Nos. 2-3 '... a particularly useful volume for historians, especially as several of the articles initially appeared in local journals in Africa and were not widely available... The scholarship that constitutes the body of this book is of the hightest quality and argues eloquently for Professor Hair's methodology. The author demonstrates the effectiveness of "digging out all extant primary sources and examining them in detail". The lasting value of his meticulously researched articles derives from that painstaking method and from the effective ciritical interpretation of those sources.' African History