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- Published online January 1, 2019.
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- Benjamin Talton (talton{at}temple.edu) is a professor of African history at Temple University, where his research, writing, and teaching focus on politics and culture in modern Africa and the African Diaspora. His publications include Politics of Social Change in Ghana: The Konkomba Struggle for Political Equality (Palgrave, 2010); Black Subjects in Africa and Its Diasporas: Race and Gender in Research and Writing, edited with Quincy T. Mills of Vassar College (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), and, most recently, In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). He is currently an editor of African Studies Review and serves on the executive board of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) and is a past president of the GSA.