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The Journal of African History (JAH) publishes articles and book reviews ranging widely over the African past, from ancient times to the present. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-african-history
Read the new #OpenAccess article by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez on the #Ovambo #Genocide in #Angola. #colonialism #Portugal #violence #famine
bit.ly/4rhHhQl
Read the the new #OpenAccess article by Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué on #faith, #emotion, political kinship, and #transnational connections as told through the fascinating story of Enoch Olinga. #Uganda #Baha'iFaith
Link: bit.ly/4tKNyGH
Read the new #OpenAccess article by Stephen Volz on #SolPlaatje, #KorantaEaBecoana, and the pursuit of Multiethnic Liberalism in #SouthAfrica:
bit.ly/3Ow1Dat
Looking for some fascinating weekend listening? Abou Bamba, @michmo.bsky.social, Moses Ochonu, and Thula Simpson join @sseverson.bsky.social to talk breakthroughs, trends, and challenges in #AfricanHistory we saw in last year’s vol. On Apple, Spotify, and streaming:
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-4ywb9...
So proud of this episode with @michmo.bsky.social, Abou Bamba, Moses Ochonu, and Thula Simpson, who each brought such thoughtfulness and honesty to our JAH Vol. 66 retrospective. Grateful to work with these brilliant editors!
🎙️: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-4ywb9...
New publication!
'Harambee Co-operative Savings and Credit Society: Wealth, Inequality, and Accumulation in 1970s Kenya' by Justin Willis, Radha Upadhyaya, and Eric Njuguna Kamau
@thejah.bsky.social
bit.ly/3ZlOV0k
"'The Net That Catches the Most Fish': Fishing, Innovation, & Law in the Gold Coast Colony (Ghana), c. 1898–1923" now published @thejah.bsky.social.
This article was in the works for several years, very pleased to see it out. Thank you to the editors & reviewers.
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Read the new #OpenAccess article by @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social on #fishing and #law in #Ghana:
bit.ly/45CFld3
I'm pleased to announce that my article has been published in the flagship @thejah.bsky.social. #WestAfrica #Ghana #Senegal #UnitedStates #UnitedNations #Economics #Development #Decolonization #Imperialism #Brightgyamfi
Read the new #OpenAccess article by @gyamfiphd.bsky.social on #NeoColonialism, #Underdevelopment, #Economics, and IDEP:
bit.ly/3Ys21bK
Read the new #OpenAccess article by @ccm541.bsky.social on #women nanga players and #history telling in Western #Uganda:
bit.ly/3K9jdPN
In our latest podcast episode, Mark Deets joins editor Abou Bamba to discuss his featured review of “L’idée de la #Casamance autonome” by @sevead.bsky.social, and #AcademicFreedom, #HistoricalContingency, and #politics in #Senegal:
Streaming: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-axcej...
Review: bit.ly/4n8zHFe
Read the new #OpenAccess article by Chepchirchir Tirop on #sports, #stadiums, and Moi’s transnational populist #politics in #Kenya:
bit.ly/3K1y6nj
Read the new #OpenAccess article by John Thornton, “The Emergence of Social and Political Complexity in West #CentralAfrica” :
bit.ly/4hS1c59
Read the new #OpenAccess article by Felicitas Becker and Salvatory Nyanto on women’s beer brewing and livelihood strategies in #Tabora #Tanzania after the end of #slavery:
bit.ly/3JwHI9q
Read the new featured review by Mark W. Deets detailing both “L’idée de la #Casamance autonome: Possibles et dettes morales de la situation coloniale au #Senegal” (Editions Karthala) by @sevead.bsky.social and the political storm surrounding its publication:
bit.ly/4n8zHFe
Read the new OA article by Abikal Borah on indentured labor in southeastern #SouthAfrica and relations between Indian and Zulu workers:
bit.ly/4nPKSns
Read the new OA article by Agata Błoch, Guillem Martos Oms, and Clodomir Santana on #archives, #DigitalBias, #AI, and the production of historical narratives:
bit.ly/4q4UGvD
Read the new OA #HistoryMatters piece by Leslye Obiora on #BeninBronzes and the #Law:
bit.ly/4nnyF8R
#Nigeria #CulturalHeritage #antiquities #colonialism #restitution
Read the new OA article by Oliver Coates on war correspondents from #Nigeria in #Burma in 1945:
bit.ly/4nO6BfN
Read the new OA History Matters piece by Cresa Pugh on legacies of the #BeninBronzes and #Restitution within the #BlackAtlantic
bit.ly/48DRHnJ
Read the new OA article by David Damtar on #Gender and #Mining in colonial #Ghana
bit.ly/48Uk5ln
Read the new review by @garthandrew.bsky.social of “Dividing Dar: Race, Space, and Colonial Construction in German Occupied Daressalam, 1850–1920” (@dgb-history.bsky.social) by Patrick Christopher Hege:
bit.ly/46CCkZK
Read the new review by Joshua Grace of Tasha Rijke-Epstein’s “Children of the Soil” (@dukepress.bsky.social). #Madagascar #Architecture #UrbanHistory
bit.ly/3JZVEc2
In the latest OA #HistoryMatters piece, JAH #WestAfrica editor Moses Ochonu writes about the rise and implications of what he terms the new instrumental turn in historical scholarship in #Nigeria:
bit.ly/3JExPWV
Read the new OA article by @nielsboender.bsky.social on the African Independent Pentecostal Church, #decolonization, #land, and #reconciliation in #Kenya:
bit.ly/46hPEUo
Read the new OA article by Rachel Petrocelli
#Senegal #workplace #colonialism #racism
LINK: bit.ly/45UsfHp
Read the new OA article by @caitlinbarker.bsky.social on the #diplomacy carried out by #women from #Cameroon in #China during the era of #decolonization:
bit.ly/4mGMdg6
Read Paul T. Clarke’s new OA article on #policing, #war, #mercantilism, and the #frontier in Dutch #SouthAfrica:
bit.ly/47D7tyj
Check out the latest episode of the JAH podcast, featuring Ayo Adegbite in conversation with @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social about studying the history of fisheries management on #LakeMalawi. Find it on Apple, Spotify, and streaming here: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-vyr4h...
OA article link: bit.ly/4lmkjoT