Past Updates
September 2020
Women in South Sudan (Christopher Tounsel)
Women, Race, and Ethnicity (Hilary Jones)
August 2020
Cocoa and Child Slavery in West Africa (Michael Odijie)
July 2020
Algerian Civil War (Anissa Daoudi)
Cory Library For Humanities Research (Jeff Peires)
Emecheta, Buchi (Chika Unigwe)
Frantz Fanon (Christopher J. Lee)
Guns in Africa (Felix Brahm)
History of Zanzibar to 1890 (Abdul Sheriff)
Origins of Writing in Northeastern Africa (John Coleman Darnell)
Slavery and Post-Slavery in the Indian Ocean World (Alessandro Stanziani)
Southern African Liberation Movements in Nkrumah's Ghana (Matteo Grilli)
The History of Eastern African Foragers (Mary E. Prendergast)
The Ottoman Maghrib, 1505-1830 (Stephen Cory)
Thomas Jesse Jones, the Phelps Stokes Commissions and Education for Social Welfare in Colonial Africa (Andrew Barnes)
West Africa and the African Diaspora (Bayo Holsey)
Women in Fashion and Textiles (MacKenzie Moon Ryan)
Women in Malawi (Anika Wilson)
Women in Mauritania (Katherine Ann Wiley)
Women in Mauritius (Ramola Ramtohul)
June 2020
Archival and Digital Sources on Unfree Labor in Northern Nigeria (Mohammed Bashir Salau)
Ekpo, Margaret (Chinyere Ukpokolo)
Poverty and Inequality in South Africa: A History (Colin Bundy)
Rice Cultivation in the History of Slavery (Judith Carney)
Sufism, Islamic Philosophy, and Education in West Africa (Oludamini Ogunnaike)
The Archaeology of Metal Production in Southern Africa (Abigail Moffett)
Women in Lesotho (Scott Rosenberg)
Women in Madagascar (Faranirina V. Rajaonah)
May 2020
Baartman, Sara (Clifton Crais)
Food and Diet: Methods (Liza Gijanto)
Popular Culture in Francophone Central Africa (Bogumil Jewsiewicki)
The Amazons of Dahomey (Agbenyega Adedze)
The Archaeology of Highveld Farming Communities (Karim Sadr)
The History of Guinea (Mohamed Saliou Camara)
The Kalanga in Historical Perspective (Thembani Dube)
The Legal and Political Framework for Archaeology and the Protection of Archaeological Resources in South Africa (Janette Deacon)
Women in Burundi (Marie Saiget)
Women in Postcolonial Africa (Selina Makana)
Women in Seychelles (Penda Choppy)
Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Amandine Lauro)
Women, Gender, and Sexuality in East Africa (Miroslava Prazak)
Women's Literature in African History (Anthonia C. Kalu)
April 2020
Archaeology and Heritage of Slavery in Eastern Africa (Lydia Wilson Marshall)
Climate Change and Society in Southern African History (Matthew Hannaford)
Culture and Society at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1795 (Gerald Groenewald)
Guns in Africa (Felix Brahm)
Haile Selassie (Eshete Tibebe)
Humanitarianism in Africa (Bronwen Everill)
Mountain History in Africa from the Earliest Times (Christopher Conte)
Nana Yaa Asantewa (Lynda Day)
Njinga a Mbande: Power and War in 17th century Angola (Selma Pantoja)
Pereira, Carmen (Ângela Sofia Benoliel Coutinho)
Slaving in Bantu-Speaking Regions (Joseph C. Miller)
The Making of the Maghrib: Morocco (1510-1822) (Stephen Cory)
Women and Migration (Lesley Nicole Braun)
Women in Cape Verde (Elizabeth Challinor)
Women in Mauritania (Katherine Ann Wiley)
Women in Mauritius (Ramola Ramtohul)
Women in Northern African History (Natalya Vince)
March 2020
African Indigenous Religions (Walter E.A. van Beek)
al-Nafzaouiya, Zaynab (Hasna Lebbady, Hiam El Hilali)
Ben M’rad, Bchira (Lilia Labidi)
Bibi Titi Mohamed (Chambi Chachage and Jacqueline Mgumia)
Congo in the Americas and Brazil (Marina Souza)
Education and Politics in Colonial French West Africa (Kelly Duke Bryant)
el-Durr, Shajarat (Azza El Kholy)
Emerging Modernities in Nineteenth Century Africa (Rebecca Shumway)
Free French Africa (Eric Jennings)
Girlhood in Africa (Sarah Bellows-Blakely)
Labor History of East Africa (Bill Freund)
Lakwena, Alice (Heike Behrend)
Mernissi, Fatima (Raja Rhouni)
Motherhood and Maternalism (Lorelle Semley)
Ping, Jean (Jeremy Rich)
The Archaeology of the Swahili World (Stephanie Wynne-Jones)
The Many Lives of Nelson Mandela (Tom Lodge)
Women and Genocide in Africa (Erin Jessee)
Women and Slavery in Africa (Mariana P. Candido)
Women in Associations and Organizations (Alice Kang)
Women in Comoros (Sophie Blanchy)
Women in Equatorial Guinea (Susana Castillo-Rodriguez and Alba Valenciano Mañé)
Women in Law and Justice (Helen Dancer)
Women in Somalia (Safia Aidid)
Women in South Africa (Jill E. Kelly)
February 2020
An Environmental History of Southern Africa (Jasper Knight)
Histories of Transportation and Mobility in Africa (Jennifer Hart)
Ngoyi, Lilian (Iris Berger)
Women and Development (Michael Kevane)
Women in West African History (Barbara Cooper)
January 2020
African Women in Art (Nomusa Makhubu)
Maps and Cartography in the History of South Africa: From Print to Digital (Norman Etherington)
The Tangier American Legation Museum (Diana Wylie)
Western Education and The Rise of a New African Elite in West Africa (Apollos Okwuchi Nwauwa)
December 2019
The History of Islam in Mauritania (Erin Pettigrew)
Urban Life in French West Africa (Odile Goerg)
November 2019
Archaeology of Colonial Settlement at the Cape (Antonia Malan)
Euro-African Trade Relations and Socioeconomic Development in West Africa, 1450-1900 (Joseph Inikori)
October 2019
African Feminist Thought (Amina Mama)
Central Africa and the Atlantic World (Roquinaldo Ferreira)
International Solidarity with FRELIMO in Mozambique During the Liberation Struggle (Corrado Tornimbeni)
Ping, Jean (Jeremy Rich), revised
Reproductive Health, Fertility Control, and Childbirth (Susanne M. Klausen)
The History of Christian Missions to Africa (Norman Etherington)
The Legal and Political Framework for Archaeology and the Protection of Archaeological Resources in South Africa (Janette Deacon), summary
Water Management in East Africa (Matthew V. Bender)
Women in Law & Justice (Helen Dancer), revised
August 2019
Disease and Epidemiology of Humans and Animals: Methods (James L.A. Webb, Jr.)
History, Politics, and Culture in Central Tanzania (Philip Gooding)
Sex Work/Prostitution in Africa (Chi Adanna Mgbako)
The Origins and Spread of Pastoralism in Southern Africa (John Kinahan)
July 2019
Banda, Hastings Kamuzu (Joey Power)
de Sousa, Noémia (Hilary Owen)
Nana Asma’u (Alaine Hutson)
The Cameroon Grassfield States in the Broader History of Nigeria and Cameroon (Mark Dike DeLancey)
Women and Violence in Africa (Peace A. Medie)
Women in Benin (Jessica Catherine Reuther)
Women in Guinea-Bissau (Joanna Davidson)
Women in Modern Egypt (Hoda Elsadda)
Women in Post-Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction in Africa (Helen Scanlon)
Women in São Tomé and Príncipe (Gerhard Seibert)
June 2019
Mariama Ba (Souad T. Ali)
Women in Nationalist Movements (Selina Makana)
Women, Power, and the State in Guinea (Anna Dessertine)
May 2019
The Sudanese Communist Movement (Yoshiko Kurita)
Women and Pan-Africanism (Hakim Adi)
Women in Namibia (Heike Becker)
April 2019
African Women in Film, the Moving Image and Screen Culture (Beti Ellerson)
Animals in African History (Sandra Swart)
Women's Legal Rights (Johanna Bond)
March 2019
Africans in World Wars I and II (Joe Lunn)
Igbo-Ukwu (Raphael Chijioke Njoku)
Madagascar (Modern) (Jane Hooper)
Mbeki, Govan (Colin Bundy)
Rodrigues, Deolinda (Margarida Paredes)
The Empire of Ghana (Nikolas Gestrich)
Uwilingiyimana, Agathe (Jennie Burnet)
Witchcraft in Africa: Political Power and Spiritual Insecurity from the Precolonial Era to the Present (Sean Redding)
Women in Liberia (Mary H. Moran)
February 2019
An Introduction to the Lower Niger Bronzes of Southern Nigeria (Philip M. Peek)
Julius Nyerere: Tanzanian President, Statesman, and Intellectual (Leander Schneider)
Legacies of South Africa's Apartheid Wars (Gary Baines)
Ozurumba Mbanaso or King Jaja of Opobo (Joseph Davey)
Saharan Peoples and Societies (E. Ann McDougall)
Technological Origins: Primate Perspectives and Early Hominin Tool Use in Africa (Susana Carvalho, Megan Beardmore-Herd)
The Empire of Mali (Sirio Canós-Donnay)
The Gambia (Bala Saho)
Women in Central African History (Gertrude Mianda)
January 2019
Nationalism and Decolonization in Cameroon (Joseph Takougang)
Socialist Politics in Lusophone Africa (Michael G. Panzer)
Women in the Gambia (Catherine Cymone Fourshey)
December 2018
Archaeobotany: Methods (Louis Champion, Dorian Q. Fuller)
Colonial History and Historiography (Marie-Albane de Suremain)
Community-Based Approaches to African History (Peter R. Schmidt, Kathryn Weedman Arthur)
Digital Sources in Europe for African History (Marion Wallace)
Documentary Sources and Methods for Precolonial African History (Christina Mobley)
Historical Linguistics: Classification (Constanze Weise)
Pottery chaînes opératoires as Historical Documents (Olivier P. Gosselain)
Scientific Dating Methods in African Archaeology (Vincent J. Hare, Emma Loftus)
Swazi Women's Resilience Regarding Patriarchy, Marginalization, and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic (Betty Harris), summary
November 2018
Africa in the World: History and Historiography (Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia)
African Diasporas: History and Historiography (Mohammed Bashir Salau)
African Intellectual History and Historiography (Jonathon L. Earle)
African Military History and Historiography (Timothy Parsons)
African Philosophies of History and Historiography (Toyin Falola, Abikal Borah)
African Urban History and Historiography (Eric Ross)
Anthropology and the Study of Africa (Jessica Johnson)
Atlantic Slavery and the Slave Trade: History and Historiography (Daniel B. Domingues da Silva, Philip Misevich)
Digital Approaches to the History of the Atlantic Slave Trade (Daryle Williams)
Early African Pasts: Sources, Interpretations, and Meaning (David Schoenbrun)
Environmental History (Emmanuel Kreike)
Exploring Present Pasts: Popular Arts as Historical Sources (Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Allen F. Roberts)
Film and Video as Historical Sources (Mahir Şaul)
Historical Linguistics: Words and Things (Rhonda M. Gonzales)
Introduction to Archaeological Methods and Sources (Peter Mitchell)
Legal History and Historiography in Colonial Sub-Saharan Africa (Richard Waller)
Migration History and Historiography (Benedetta Rossi)
Oral History and Life History as Sources (Mary Dillard)
Reading the Archives as Sources (David M. Gordon)
Rock Art Research Methods (Jeremy Hollmann)
South African Historical Writing to the End of the Apartheid Era (Chris Saunders)
Sport History and Historiography (Michelle Sikes)
The Archaeology of Political Complexity in West Africa Through 1450 ce (Stephen Dueppen)
The Dakar School of African History (Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch)
The Dar es Salaam School of African History (Gregory H. Maddox)
The History and Historiography of Science (Helen Tilley)
The Internet and Social Media as Sources (Aubrey Bloomfield, Sean Jacobs)
The Wisconsin School of African History (Joseph C. Miller)
October 2018
Genetics and Southern African History (Francesco Montinaro, Cristian Capelli)
Methods in the Study of African Historical Geography, Landscapes, and Environmental Change (Katherine Homewood)
The SOAS School of African History (Shobana Shankar)
Travelers’ Accounts as Sources (Adam Jones)
Writing African History in France during the Colonial Era (Sophie Dulucq)
September 2018
Kingdoms of South-Central Africa: Sources, Historiography, and History (David M. Gordon)
The Sahel in West African History (Barbara Cooper)
West African Cinema (John C. McCall)
Women in Angola (Mariana P. Candido)
August 2018
African Biography and Historiography (Heather Hughes)
African Economic History and Historiography (Alois Mlambo)
Archaeozoology: Methods (Veerle Linseele)
Heritage and the Use of the Past in East Africa (John Giblin)
Material Culture as a Historical Source (Robert Ross)
July 2018
African Market Women, Market Queens, and Merchant Queens (Gracia Clark)
Animating African History: Digital and Visual Trends (Paula Callus)
Egyptian-Sudanese Trade in the Ottoman Period to 1882 (Terence Walz)
Historical Linguistics: Loanwords and Borrowing (Birgit Ricquier)
Numerical Data and Statistical Sources (Leigh Gardner)
Photographs as Sources in African History (Robert Gordon, Jonatan Kurzwelly)
The Women’s War of 1929 (Adam Paddock)
June 2018
Ethiopia in the Nineteenth Century (Teshale Tibebu)
Funmilayo (Anikulapo) Ransome-Kuti: Nigerian Anti-Imperialist, Humanist, and Feminist Activist (Cheryl Johnson-Odim)
Islamic Historical Sources: Manuscripts and Online (Amidu Olalekan Sanni)
The Archaeology of Gender in Sub-Saharan Africa (Lyn Wadley)
The History of Islam in East Africa (Felicitas Becker)
The Ottomans in Northeast Africa (A. C. S. Peacock)
May 2018
Encounters between Ethiopia and Europe, 1400–1660 (Matteo Salvadore)
Money and Currency in African History (Jane I. Guyer, Karin Pallaver)
Southern Zambezia States and Indian Ocean Trade, 1450-1900 (Malyn Newitt)
April 2018
Ethnicity in Africa (Gabrielle Lynch)
Interactions between North Africa and Spain: Medieval and Early Modern (Camilo Gómez-Rivas)
Ismaili and Fatimid North Africa (Christine D. Baker)
Newspapers as Sources for African History (Emma Hunter)
Prisoners, Ransoms, and Slavery in the Maghrib (Russell Hopley)
South Africa’s African National Congress in Exile (Colin Bundy)
The African Rinderpest Panzootic, 1888-1897 (Thaddeus Sunseri)
The Bantu Expansion (Koen Bostoen)
March 2018
Bodily Ways of Knowing: Anthropological and Historical Approaches to Affect and the Senses (Kathryn Linn Geurts)
Business Records as Sources for African History (Dmitri van den Bersselaar)
Digital Sources for the History of the Horn of Africa (Massimo Zaccaria)
HIV/Aids in South Africa (Rebecca Hodes)
Mass Media in North Africa: From Print to Digital (Emilio Spadola)
Portuguese Colonialism in Africa (Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo)
The Making of the Maghrib: 600-1060 CE (Allen Fromherz)
The Soninke in Ancient West African History (Kassim Kone)
The Zanzibar Revolution and Its Aftermath (G. Thomas Burgess)
February 2018
Oral Traditions as Sources (Stephen Belcher)
Philosophical Perspectives on the History of African Socialism (Ajume H. Wingo)
Precolonial Metallurgy and Mining across Africa (Shadreck Chirikure)
Samuel Ajayi Crowther: African and Yoruba Missionary Bishop (Andrew Barnes)
The 1924 Revolution in Sudan (Elena Vezzadini)
The Anlu Rebellion (Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué)
The History of Sudanese Nationalism (Yoshiko Kurita)
January 2018
Christian History and Historiography (Joel Cabrita)
Development of Plant Food Production in the West African Savannas: Archaeobotanical Perspectives (Katharina Neumann)
Technological Change in Late 19th-Century South Africa (William Storey)
The Politics of Decolonization in French and British West Africa (Frederick Cooper)
December 2017
Anthropological and Ethnographic Methods and Sources (Constance Smith)
Archaeozoology: Methods (Veerle Linseele), summary
Film, Radio, and Society in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa (James Genova)
Indigenous Peoples in Africa (Renee Sylvain)
North Africa and France: Imperialism, Colonialism, and Women, 1830–1962 (Julia Clancy-Smith)
Postcolonial States and Societies in West Africa (Ebenezer Obadare)
The Swahili in the African and Indian Ocean Worlds to c. 1500 (Abdul Sheriff)
Women and Post-Independence African Politics (Gretchen Bauer, Akosua Darkwah, Donna Patterson)
November 2017
The Ethiopian Red Terror (Jacob Wiebel)
The History of Angola (Jeremy Ball)
October 2017
Boko Haram: History and Context (Hilary Matfess)
Decolonization in French West Africa (Tony Chafer)
Ethnographic Analogy in Archaeology: Methodological Insights from Southern Africa (Mark McGranaghan)
Food Production in the Forest Zone of West Africa: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives (Richard T. Chia, A. Catherine D'Andrea)
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Precolonial Sub-Saharan African Farming and Herding Communities (Paul Lane, Anna Shoemaker)
Mahdist Omdurman (Robert S. Kramer)
Pentecostalism in Africa (Nimi Wariboko)
The Stone Age Archaeology of West Africa (Eleanor Scerri)
Tropical Africa in the Global Economy (Ralph A. Austen)
September 2017
Ceramics, Foodways, and Consumption: Methods (Liza Gijanto)
Forest History (Christopher Conte)
Popular Politics in East Africa from Precolonial to Postcolonial Times (James R. Brennan)
The Nile Waters Issue (Terje Tvedt)
Ujamaa (Michael Jennings)
August 2017
Climatology: Methods (Sharon E. Nicholson)
Interactions between Precolonial Foragers, Herders, and Farmers in Southern Africa (James R. Denbow)
July 2017
African Religion and Healing in the Atlantic Diaspora (John M. Janzen)
Berbers and the Nation-State in North Africa (Bruce Maddy-Weitzman)
Documenting Precolonial Trade in Africa (Shadreck Chirikure)
Farming and Herding in Eastern Africa: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives (Freda Nkirote M'Mbogori)
History of South Africa's Bantustans (Laura Phillips)
Paleoenvironmental Science: Methods (David K. Wright)
Primary Historical Sources in Archaeology: Methods (Rachel King)
Southern Africa before Colonial Times (John Wright)
Women and Politics in Africa (Aili Mari Tripp)
June 2017
Political Complexity North and South of the Zambezi River (Maria Schoeman)
Women and Apartheid (Meghan Healy-Clancy)
June 2017
Political Complexity North and South of the Zambezi River (Maria Schoeman)
Women and Apartheid (Meghan Healy-Clancy)
May 2017
Christian Missions and the State in 19th and 20th century Angola and Mozambique (Teresa Cruz e Silva)
Decolonization in Portuguese Africa (Pedro Aires Oliveira)
The History of Migrant Labor in South Africa (1800–2014) (Peter Delius)
April 2017
Slavery at the Cape (Nigel Worden)
March 2017
Cannabis and Tobacco in Precolonial and Colonial Africa (Chris S. Duvall)
The Land Question in South Africa: 1913 and Beyond (Cherryl Walker)
Urban Society in Colonial Sudan (Ahmad Alawad Sikainga)
Urbanization in Eastern Africa (Andrew Burton)
February 2017
Communism in South Africa (Irina Filatova)
Education in Colonial Sudan, 1900–1957 (Iris Seri-Hersch)
Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness Movement (Leslie Anne Hadfield)
The History of Agriculture in Ethiopia (James C. McCann)
The Marine Fisheries of South Africa (Lance van Sittert)
December 2016
Africa in the Global Economy (Ralph A. Austen), summary
Decolonization in French West Africa (Tony Chafer), summary
Documenting Precolonial Trade in Africa (Shadreck Chirikure), summary
Farming and Herding in Eastern Africa: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives (Freda Nkirote M'Mbogori), summary
North Africa and France: Imperialism, Colonialism, and Women, 1830–1962 (Julia Clancy-Smith), summary
The Swahili in the African and Indian Ocean Worlds to c. 1500 (Abdul Sheriff), summary
West African Cinema (John McCall), summary
West African Manuscripts in Arabic and African Languages and Digital Preservation (Fallou Ngom), summary
Women and Apartheid (Meghan Healy-Clancy), summary
August 2016
Ethnicity in Africa (Gabrielle Lynch) (summary)
Missionaries and Mission Activities in Angola and Mozambique (Teresa Cruz e Silva) (summary)
Slavery at the Cape (Nigel Worden) (summary)
The History of South Africa's Bantustans (Laura Phillips) (summary)
