| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1 | The History Cooperative

Mahir Îaul and Patrick Royer. West African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anti-Colonial War. (Western African Studies.) Athens: Ohio University Press and Oxford: James Currey. 2001. Pp. xii, 404. Cloth $65.00, paper $26.95.
According to the authors, the Volta-Bani uprising of 1915–1916 was the largest armed movement of resistance to French colonial expansion in Africa. Yet it has been virtually ignored by historians. The first achievement of Mahir Îaul and Patrick Royer's meticulously researched book is therefore to fill a significant gap in our knowledge of resistance to colonial rule.	1
The Volta-Bani war started in late 1915 and lasted about a year. The war was not actually a single united campaign but played itself out in four separate arenas in the western Volta region of what was then French West Africa (FWA). Some eight hundred to nine hundred thousand Africans in a thousand villages (approximately eight percent of the population of FWA) were involved in the war, with the African side mustering armies of between fifteen and twenty thousand men at its height. The resistance movement was ultimately beaten by superior French firepower and its leaders executed.	. . .

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