Jihād in West Africa during the Age of RevolutionsIn Jihd in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world have not given Africa its due consideration as part of either the Atlantic world or the age of revolutions. The book examines the jihd movement in the context of the age of revolutionscommonly associated with the American and French revolutions and the erosion of European imperialist powersand shows how