The Journal of African History
@thejah
The Journal of African History (JAH) publishes articles and book reviews ranging widely over the African past, from ancient times to the present.
Read the new #OA article by Alemayehu Erkihun Engida on #Derg era #Agrarian #Development in the #Borderlands of #Ethiopia: cup.org/4wP0BYN
Read the new #OA article by Thomas Keegan on #Eugenics and #Politics in Colonial #SierraLeone: cup.org/4f1laL0
Read the new review by Elizabeth Price of “Available Light: #OmarBadsha and the Struggle for Change in #SouthAfrica” (@ohiounivpress.bsky.social) by Daniel Magaziner. #Art #Apartheid #Activism cup.org/4vA0TBh
Read the new review by @ayianwr.bsky.social of Nathaniel Mathews’s “ #Zanzibar Was a Country: #Exile and #Citizenship between #EastAfrica and the Gulf” (@ucpress.bsky.social): cup.org/3RwS2lM
Read the new #OA featured review by Iracema Dulley and Matheus Serva Pereira on Seibert Gerhard's "The Wealth of History of the Small African Twin-Island State São Tomé and Príncipe": cup.org/4h9LhR9
Read the new #OA article by Erin Mosely on historian Ferdinand #Nahimana and the #MediaTrial at the #ICTR. #historiography #genocide #Rwanda cup.org/3QXKxUO
Read Siyabonga Njica’s new #OA article on Bloke Modisane, the #MajiMajiWar, #Historiography, and #Postcolonial #NationBuilding. #Tanzania #SouthAfrica cup.org/4ghGLjq
Check out this fascinating new #OA article by Emily Hardick on the pathbreaking Congolese performer and producer Adolphe Kisimba! #DRC #Belgium #Performance #Culture: cup.org/4vjdxoM
Read the review by Ayo Adegbite of “Developing to Scale: #Technology and the Making of #GlobalHealth” (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) by Heidi Morefield: cup.org/4vOCPLz
Read the new #OA article by João Vicente Melo on the early colonial elites of #Luanda. #CentralAfrica #AtlanticWorld #Angola #Portugal #Eurafricans #microhistory cup.org/4naBY4L
Read Igor Roland Matonda’s new #OpenAccess French-language article “Les lacs Tumba et Maï-Ndombe dans la cartographie européenne du 16e–18e siècle”: doi.org/10.1017/S002...
Read the new review by Ridwan Muhammed on “Birth Politics: #Colonial Power, #MedicalPluralism, and #Maternity in #Nigeria” (@hopkinspress.bsky.social) by @ogewilliams.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/244dbyf3
Read the new review by Kenneth King of “#NormanLeys and #SettlerColonialism in #Kenya” (@merlinpress.bsky.social) by Colin Leys: cup.org/40U2lBt
Read Alicia C. Decker on Derek R. Peterson’s “A Popular History of Idi Amin’s #Uganda” (@yalepress.bsky.social) in the new #OpenAccess #FeaturedReview “Everyday People and the Making of #Authoritarianism”: cup.org/47o2Pn5
Read the new 🔥🔥🔥 review by @aselmeyer.bsky.social and @saitabau.bsky.social of “Decolonizing Maasai History” (@bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social) by Meitamei Olol Dapash and Mary Poole. #activism #historiography cup.org/4t4ZzVY
Read the new #OpenAccess article by Siyabonga Nxumalo on British #Imperialism in #SouthAfrica and the attack on parts of the #ZuluRoyalFamily: cup.org/40QsmSo
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
Read the new #OpenAccess article by @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social on #fishing and #law in #Ghana: bit.ly/45CFld3
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
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