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African Proconsuls. European Governors in Africa.
L.H. Gann & Peter Duignan, eds.

New York/London/Stanford. The Free Press/Collier Macmillan Publishers & Hoover Institution. 1978. 548 pages

Contributors

• Adiele Eberachukwu Afigbo, professor of history, head of the Department of History and Archaeology, and dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Author of The Warrant Chiefs: Indirect Rule in Southeastern Nigeria, 1891-1929 and other studies on West African history.
• Leland Conley Barrows, associate professor of African and European history at Voorhees College.
• Henri Brunschwig, director, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales. Author of numerous works on imperialism in Africa, including Mythes et réalités de l'impérialisme colonial français, 1871-1914 and L'Avènement de l'Afrique noire du 19e siècle à nos jours.
• William B. Cohen, associate professor of history, Indiana University, Bloomington. Author of Rulers of Empire: The French Colonial Service in Africa.
• Bruce Fetter, associate professor of history, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Author of The Creation of Elisabethville, 1910-1940 and editor of Urbanism Past and Present.
• Peter Duignan, Director of African and Middle East Studies and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution. Co-author of The Rulers of German Africa and co-editor of Colonialism in Africa and other books on colonialism.
• John E. Flint, professor of Commonwealth history, Dalhousie University. Author of Cecil Rhodes and other works on European imperialism; co-editor of The Cambridge History of Africa.
• Harry A. Gailey, professor of history and coordinator of African studies, San Jose State College. Author of the standard A History of The Gambia and a number of other books related to African history.
• L. H. Gann, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution. Co-author of The Rulers of British Africa, 1870-1914, co-editor of Colonialism in Africa and other books on African history.
• G. Wesley Johnson, Jr., professor of history, University of California at Santa Barbara. Author of The Emergence of Black Politics in Senegal and other studies of francophone Africa.
• Anthony H. M. Kirk-Greene, Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford University; a former British administrator. Author of numerous studies on British colonial history.
• Virgil L. Matthew, Jr., professor of history, California State University at Fresno. Now preparing a study of Gallieni.
• William Bunnell Norton, professor of history (emeritus) and research associate, African Studies Center, Boston University.
• Ronald Robinson, fellow of Balliol College and Beit Professor of History of the British Commonwealth, Oxford. Co-author of the seminal study Africa and Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism and of other studies.
• Woodruff D. Smith, associate professor of history, University of Texas at San Antonio. Author of The German Colonial Empire.
• Brian Weinstein, professor of political science, Howard University. Author of Eboué, the standard biography of Governor-general Eboué, and of works on the politics of language.
• Douglas L. Wheeler, professor of history, University of New Hampshire, Durham. Co-author of Angola and of Republican Portugal: A Political History, 1910-1926.

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