ISSN: 0361-5413 (Print), 1558-2744 (Online)
Editors: Paul Bjerk Texas Tech University, USA, and Andrew N. Wegmann Texas Tech University, USA
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History in Africa is an international, peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes original research and review essays on methodological and historiographical matters pertaining to African history. It has been at the forefront of critical discussion of these topics for more than four decades. It seeks submissions that suggest new methodological approaches, provide insights into source materials, and reflect critically on themes in existing literatures or emerging fields of inquiry.History in Africa is a venue for rigorous analysis of both established and emerging research practices as well as of the resulting scholarly production about the African past.

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“Maize Landscapes in Indigenous Literatures: Toward Alternative Cartographic Imaginaries” discusses the work of four 21st century poets who write bilingually...

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In a fractured world, we can mostly agree that medical progress is valuable, and that achieving it is a worthwhile social goal. But beyond that, there are different The post What can the Past tell us about the Future of Medicine? first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....

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A Journal of Debates, Methods, and Source Analysis

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Saliu Salvador Ramos das Neves, a Nineteenth-Century Yoruba Muslim in the Black Atlantic

Law and History in Angola: The Collection of Court Cases in the Benguela District Court (1850–1945)

“Vivre en paix et en bonne intelligence avec les princes locaux” in Senegambia in the Age of Slave Economy: Diplomatic Treaties, Trade, Conflicts, and Peace in Interaction (1679–1815)

A Tapestry of Human-Induced and Climate-Driven Environmental Change in Western Uganda: The Ndali Crater Lakes Region

Archival Aerial Photographs of Africa: Present Potential and Imagining a Machine-Learning Future

Navigating “Confidentiality”: Ghana’s National Reconciliation Commission’s “Sensitive” Records in Perspective

Urban History in Kumase, Ghana: A Note on Archives

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Towards a Dramatization of the Anglo-Ijebu Conflict of 1892: Creating a Script

Aɖaʋatram (Madness Has Led Me Astray): Ritual Archives and Ewe Identities on the Ghana–Togo Borderlands

The Century’s Firstborn: Intimate History in the Aftermath of Nineteenth-Century Islamic Revolutions in Central Mali

A Note on Photographic Archival Collections on Northern Ghana

African and Asian Writings from Mozambique: Uncovering Indigenous Records in a Portuguese Colonial Archive

Archival Patchwork: Stitching Social Relationships in Colonial South Africa

A Short Report on the Ghana Railway Archive in Sekondi-Takoradi – ERRATUM

African History and the Thingly Past: A Yoruba Example

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