| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.5

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Book Review

Sub-Saharan Africa

Nemata Amelia Blyden. West Indians in West Africa, 1808–1880: The African Diaspora in Reverse. (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, number 8.) Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press. 2000. Pp. xi, 258. $75.00.

Nemata Amelia Blyden's study addresses one of the least explored areas of West Africa's historiography: the contributions of immigrant West Indians to the region's historical development. She takes us through the circumstances attendant on the imbrication of West Indians into the ethnic complexities of Sierra Leone's Freetown community and attempts to explicate the intercontinental, racial, and social class dimensions of this many-sided British experiment at social engineering. In what is a marvelous addition to the growing body of work that assesses the reverse demographic flow to the African continent, she presents the reader with a fascinating catalog of colonial calculations and subaltern reactions, neatly framed in a series of biographical vignettes that vividly illustrate the many challenges faced by the British in their supervision of this small, yet daunting, colonial project. . . .

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