Museums and History in West Africa

"...a useful book that analyzes both problems and solutions in researching, managing and explicating West Africa's cultural heritage. -" Thomas H. Wilson, JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY

"This volume provides a larger audience with a valuable awareness of the complexity of issues facing African museums and academic institutions. -" Barbara E. Frank, AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW

"... this volume, in unison with the two preceding it, has a clear message, that museums matter in modern societies and need to reach out to their communities - and that all this requires is renewed and more imaginative efforts. In that endeavour these neat publications of the West African Museums Programme are valuable symbolically. -" John E.G. Sutton, JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES

"The volume's strength is the specifics of case studies, the on-the-ground picture of moving between bureaucracies, research, and the public in settings where basic funds and supplies, helpful media, a receptive audience and safety for collections and archaeological sites are all problematic ... -" Adria LaViolette, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES