The Journal of African History

Read the new #OpenAccess article by @ccm541.bsky.social on #women nanga players and #history telling in Western #Uganda:

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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:

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Read the new #OpenAccess article by John Thornton, “The Emergence of Social and Political Complexity in West #CentralAfrica” :

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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:

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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:

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Read the new OA article by Abikal Borah on indentured labor in southeastern #SouthAfrica and relations between Indian and Zulu workers:

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Read the new OA article by Agata Błoch, Guillem Martos Oms, and Clodomir Santana on #archives, #DigitalBias, #AI, and the production of historical narratives:

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Read the new OA #HistoryMatters piece by Leslye Obiora on #BeninBronzes and the #Law:

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#Nigeria #CulturalHeritage #antiquities #colonialism #restitution

Read the new OA article by Oliver Coates on war correspondents from #Nigeria in #Burma in 1945:

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Read the new OA History Matters piece by Cresa Pugh on legacies of the #BeninBronzes and #Restitution within the #BlackAtlantic

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Read the new OA article by David Damtar on #Gender and #Mining in colonial #Ghana

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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:

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Read the new review by Joshua Grace of Tasha Rijke-Epstein’s “Children of the Soil” (@dukepress.bsky.social). #Madagascar #Architecture #UrbanHistory

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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:

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Read the new OA article by @nielsboender.bsky.social‬ on the African Independent Pentecostal Church, #decolonization, #land, and #reconciliation in #Kenya:

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Read the new OA article by Rachel Petrocelli

#Senegal #workplace #colonialism #racism

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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:

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Read Paul T. Clarke’s new OA article on #policing, #war, #mercantilism, and the #frontier in Dutch #SouthAfrica:

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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

Check out the special issue of the International Journal of #CulturalProperty on "The #AfricanRenaissance and International Cultural Heritage #Law":

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Read the new review by Bright Alozie of “The #Architecture of the Bight of #Biafra: Spatial Entanglements” (@routledgehistory.bsky.social) by Joseph Godlewski:

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Read the review by Stephen J. Rockel of “#Roadblock #Politics: The Origins of #Violence in #CentralAfrica” (@universitypress.cambridge.org) ‬ by Peer Schouten:

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In our latest #OA #HistoryMatters piece, the team of Milo Gough, Bryson Nkhoma, Elias Chirwa, @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social‬, Charles Knapp, Tracy Morse, and Wapulumuka Mulwafu explore the history of present day #Fisheries management in #LakeMalawi:

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Read the #OA article by @araujohistorian.bsky.social on #FreeTrade, #Violence, and #Sovereignty in #WestCentralAfrica during the era of the #Transatlantic #SlaveTrade: bit.ly/3GiTDGt

Read Peter Brooke’s latest article on #Radio, #Gender, and #Development in #Ghana and #Zambia:

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Read the new #OA article by @giotonolo.bsky.social on the production and repression of palm alcohol in #Benin:

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In our latest #OA Featured Review, Khwezi Mkhize explores “Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala” (@ohiounivpress.bsky.social) by Joel Cabrita:

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#SouthAfrica #biography #arts #apartheid

Interested in recent scholarship on #Mali? Check out this #OA piece by @thiamm.bsky.social, reviewing books by Richard Roberts and the late Moussa Sow: bit.ly/430cvRx

Au Sénégal, l'histoire de la Casamance sous la chape de la bataille électorale À l’approche des élections législatives du 17 novembre, le livre d’une historienne française, Séverine Awenengo Dalberto, consacré à la Casamance, a enflammé le débat public. Avant même qu’il soit (…)

The editors support @sevead.bsky.social, whose work is being unfairly instrumentalized for political ends: tinyurl.com/26dyp6sv

She is a historian not a state agent. Her pathbreaking scholarship underwent rigorous peer-review to be published in this very journal. #OA link:
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