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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

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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:

bit.ly/46CCkZK

01.10.2025 01:31 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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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

bit.ly/3JZVEc2

17.09.2025 14:04 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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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:

bit.ly/3JExPWV

01.09.2025 14:30 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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:

bit.ly/46hPEUo

01.09.2025 12:15 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Read the new OA article by Rachel Petrocelli

#Senegal #workplace #colonialism #racism

LINK: bit.ly/45UsfHp

27.08.2025 14:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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:

bit.ly/4mGMdg6

27.08.2025 14:31 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Read Paul T. Clarke’s new OA article on #policing, #war, #mercantilism, and the #frontier in Dutch #SouthAfrica:

bit.ly/47D7tyj

21.08.2025 01:21 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
David Wilson on fisheries management in Lake Malawi In this episode, David Wilson (University of Strathclyde) joins guest host Ayodeji Adegbite (Brown University) to discuss the Open Access article, "Colonialism, Governance, and Fisheries: Perspectives...

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

25.07.2025 18:49 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
Latest issue | International Journal of Cultural Property | Cambridge Core International Journal of Cultural Property

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

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

22.07.2025 19:22 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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:

bit.ly/44NluYN

18.07.2025 13:35 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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:

bit.ly/4nTVVwj

18.07.2025 13:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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:

bit.ly/4lmkjoT

10.07.2025 18:19 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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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

10.07.2025 17:57 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Read Peter Brooke’s latest article on #Radio, #Gender, and #Development in #Ghana and #Zambia:

bit.ly/4kzGLtf

10.07.2025 15:38 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Read the new #OA article by @giotonolo.bsky.social on the production and repression of palm alcohol in #Benin:

bit.ly/3TtjwWZ

10.07.2025 15:24 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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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:

bit.ly/4eNh9Iq

#SouthAfrica #biography #arts #apartheid

10.07.2025 14:29 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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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

10.07.2025 14:04 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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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:
bit.ly/4i9J86r

19.11.2024 14:39 — 👍 28    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0
Between Economic Nationalism and Liberalization: Ideas of Development and the Neoliberal Moment in Mobutu's Congo, 1965–74 | The Journal of African History | Cambridge Core Between Economic Nationalism and Liberalization: Ideas of Development and the Neoliberal Moment in Mobutu's Congo, 1965–74

Read the new article by Peter Vale (of Harvard WCFIA) on the advent of #neoliberalism in #DRCongo, now available #OpenAccess: bit.ly/3TpZYTE

20.09.2024 13:18 — 👍 20    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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In our July issue, Gregory Mann explores #democracy and #military government. #KhakiRule #WestAfrica #Sahel #coups #governance
 
Read it #OA today: bit.ly/3WkkRlz

02.05.2024 14:46 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy #FreedomDay2024 #SouthAfrica!

Read reflections on the #history and #historiography of #SouthAfrica 30 years after the end of #apartheid. #FreedomDay #Democracy

OA link: bit.ly/4aQyRrq

27.04.2024 14:18 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
A small pool and waterfall flowing over rocks in a river.

A small pool and waterfall flowing over rocks in a river.

I wrote a short piece on 'Water and History in Southern Africa,' recently published OA in @thejah.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1017/S002...

Part of a bigger project thinking about how water has shaped the past and present.

29.02.2024 10:16 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Read the new piece by @anjuliwebster.bsky.social in #HistoryMatters on #FirstView: bit.ly/3T1QTPQ  #water #rivers #SouthernAfrica

01.03.2024 14:57 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Read the new piece by @anjuliwebster.bsky.social in #HistoryMatters on #FirstView: bit.ly/3T1QTPQ  #water #rivers #SouthernAfrica

01.03.2024 14:57 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

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