Written by one of the foremost authorities on Niger and West Africa, the third edition of the Historical Dictionary provides an updated and easy-to-use single-volume reference for scholars of West Africa and Third World development.
Author Biography
Samuel Decalo, Ph.D., is a Visiting Professor at the University of Florida. An expert on West Africa, he has written the classic book on African civilian-military relations, Coups and Military Rule in Africa (1990), as well as the Historical Dictionaries of Benin, Chad, Congo, and Togo.
