Submitted: Sat, 11 May 2002 Martin A. Klein Professor emeritus Department of History University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1 Canada phone: 416-961-3055 fax: 416-978-4810 e-mail: martin.klein@utoronto.ca My research has been on Francophone West Africa, mostly Senegal, Guinea and Mali. I have been working on slavery, but also have an interest is peasants, workers, Islam and colonial administration.