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Americans and Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

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1 Their major enterprise, the five-volume Colonialism in Africa, was the subject of a review article by Hopkins, A. G., ‘The burdens of empire building’, African Affairs, LXXVII (1978), 108–20;CrossRefGoogle Scholar the first volume was appraised by the present reviewer in Transafrican Journal of History, i, ii (1971), 84–9.Google Scholar

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10 On this subject, the authors might have cited Heyman, Richard D., ‘The Role of the Carnegie Corporation in African Education 1925–1960’ (D.Ed. dissertation, Columbia University, 1969);Google Scholar in relation to African students in the U.S.A., they should have cited Horace Bond, M., Education for freedom: a history of Lincoln University, Pennsylvania (Lincoln, Pa., 1976).Google Scholar

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