📢 New Article! How did eucalyptus become central to Portugal's colonial project in Angola? Vasconcelos traces how the Benguela Railway drove the expansion of eucalyptus plantations, reshaping Angola's landscapes through colonial science, forestry and empire. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Article! How do women experience toxicity in artisanal gold mining? @jabulanishabazw.bsky.social examines women's encounters with mercury in Zimbabwe's Mazowe goldfields, showing how toxicity extends beyond pollution to gendered labour and survival. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Article! What can stories of wandering spirits tell us about social change? Zwane explores haunting narratives in post-apartheid KwaNdebele, arguing they reveal changing kinship, migration and the enduring importance of family and ritual. Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Article! How did UNITA emerge as Angola’s third liberation movement? Höring and Ribeiro revisit UNITA’s founding, revealing the alliances, negotiations and rivalries that shaped its emergence between 1964 and 1966. Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Article! Can constitutions protect diversity without freezing identity? Ramtohul examines Mauritius’s Independence Constitution, arguing that while it promoted political stability, it also entrenched identities that continue to shape nation-building. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Article! Do extractive mega-projects create development or deepen inequality? Mattioli compares mining in Tete & LNG development in Cabo Delgado, showing how communities experienced dispossession, organised resistance & challenged extractivist development www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Article! How do liberation movements continue to shape politics after conflict ends? Whang revisits the history of Lesotho’s Liberation Army, arguing it was more than a proxy force & tracing its lasting impact on Lesotho’s political landscape. Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Article! How did ideas travel across liberation movements during the Cold War? Wetzel traces the journey of the Frelimo Youth League from Soviet classrooms to Mozambique’s liberation struggle, showing how political realities shaped which ideas endured. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Article! Who gets remembered in liberation histories? Mazarire traces ZANU’s Ghana-trained insurgents, examining how some fighters became central to liberation memory while others faded from view. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Launching JSAS special issue 'Liberation Armies' Imagined Futures in Southern Africa' at #SAHS2026 in Harare. L to R chair Diana Jeater, author Methembe Hillary Hadebe, author and issue co-editor Justin Pearce with Methembe's two books. Read the issue here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjss20/5...

📢 New Article! How did ideas travel across liberation movements during the Cold War? Wetzel traces the journey of the Frelimo Youth League from Soviet classrooms to Mozambique’s liberation struggle, showing why some ideas took hold while others failed. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Article! How did women shape liberation struggles beyond activism and military roles? Ntombela examines the intellectual work of ANC and PAC women in exile, showing how organising, writing & political debate helped redefine ideas of women’s emancipation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Article! How did women soldiers reshape military culture during Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle? McGregor, Alexander and Hadebe examine women’s training in ZPRA, revealing how female recruits challenged martial masculinity during the liberation war. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Special Issue! How did southern Africa’s liberation armies imagine the future? Drawing on oral histories, memoirs & struggle archives, this SI explores how soldiers shaped ideas about freedom, gender, politics an&d solidarity from the 1960s to the 1980s. www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjss20/5...

📢 New Article ‘The Herero claim it for themselves alone’ In this article, Hogan examines the growth, evolution & eventual decline of the UNIA in South West Africa from 1921-1924. Read the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Article! “Reading is the weapon.” Arianna Lissoni examines the role of books, libraries and political education in MK camps in Angola, showing how reading helped shape MK as a political army. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Article! How did ZAPU’s liberation army emerge? Jocelyn Alexander traces how nationalist youth in 1960s Rhodesia, shaped by repression, revolutionary ideas and transnational military networks, came to imagine armed struggle. Read the article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Article! What did solidarity look like on the battlefield during Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle? Munguambe examines how Frelimo & ZANU soldiers fought side by side in Rhodesia, showing how differing military cultures created both friction and co-operation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Article! What happens when liberation movements fight in someone else’s war? @justinpearce.bsky.social examines MK’s time in Angola, showing how tensions with FAPLA & competing political visions shaped their alliance and contributed to the 1983–84 mutiny. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Book Review What does mining waste reveal about the limits of the state? Gabrielle Hecht’s “Residual Governance” examines how apartheid-era extraction continues to shape environmental injustice & why redress remains so difficult. Read Leah Burch’s review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Book Review Why does mob justice persist in post-apartheid South Africa? Karl Kemp’s “Why We Kill” argues that vigilantism reflects not only state failure, but deeper social frustrations, wounded pride, & demands for justice. Read Vartavarian’s review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Book Review How can we understand a city through its “skin”? António Tomás's "In the Skin of the City" traces Luanda’s transformation from colonial segregation (musseque/asfalto) to postcolonial fragmentation & expansion. Read Gilson Lázaro’s review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Article! Why are the violent deaths of farmworkers so often overlooked? weNkosi & Rafaely analyse media reporting on killings of farmworkers in South Africa, revealing how these deaths are depoliticised and framed as accidental or disciplinary. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Article! How do bureaucrats shape relations between people, animals, & the environment? Mburu examines how officials manage multispecies conflicts in Tanzania’s Kilombero wetland and how local communities are often marginalised in conservation governance. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Article! In Namibia, only 45% of adults report having heard of climate change. Lüttich & Riedel explore how transdisciplinary approaches can raise awareness of social climate impacts and foster meaningful adaptation & action. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Article! Do rural and poorer communities lack climate change awareness? Drawing on fieldwork in South Africa and Botswana, Ahrens challenges this assumption, showing that communities often display nuanced and thoughtful understandings of climate impacts. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Article! How did South Africa shift from customs duties to income & consumption taxes? Freytag & Siebrits examine two revenue transitions, post 1910 & in the 1990s, showing how tax structures evolved & how trade liberalisation reshaped government revenue. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Article! Is the water emergency in Nelson Mandela Bay a climate crisis or a governance failure? Umejesi and Cheteni examine competing explanations behind “day zero” fears and what’s really driving the region’s water insecurity. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New Article! How has the history of South African sport been written, and by whom? This article by Colin Bundy traces three phases in the historiography, showing how politics shaped the field and how scholars have worked to reclaim the history of black sport.

📢 New Article! How can Botswana strengthen climate adaptation amid drought, erratic rainfall, and rising temperatures? Faimau and Basimane explore national frameworks, media, and Indigenous & Traditional Knowledge in building climate resilience. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....