Stanley B. Alpern worked as a sub-editor for the New York Herald Tribune and then as a foreign service officer of the United States Information Agency for twenty-two years, two of which were spent in West Africa. He lives on the French Riviera.
"Alpern, a former Agency for International Development official
long-stationed in Africa and now an independent scholar, draws
together the available material on this peculiar institution into
an interesting and readable book."
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