PAPERBACK ISBN: 0-88258-225-9      $24.95

184 pages; 6 x 9 inches

From Dependency to Self-Reliance

by Adelaide M. Cromwell 

In January 1983, scholars and policymakers from five West African nations and their African-American counterparts met in Monrovia, Liberia. Dynamics of the African/Afro-American Connection presents the collected proceedings of that historic conference, which was held at the University of Liberia and co-­sponsored by the University of Sierra Leone and the Afro-American Studies Program of Boston University. The fifteen papers and responses in this volume edited by Adelaide M. Cromwell address the conference’s goals of strengthening collaboration, dialogue, and research between continental Africans and those in the diaspora. Also included in this book are the statements delivered to the conference by Mary Antoinette Brown Sherman, President of the University of Liberia, and Samuel K. Doe, Liberia’s Head of State. Each contributor underlines the signifi­cance of this meeting as an opportunity for the attending scholars and statespersons to expand their networks of communication with each other—further cementing the linkages between Africans and African Americans.

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