Recently Published
Browse recently published articles by month, including summaries (previews of forthcoming full-text articles).
April 2022
Chinua Achebe (Terri Ochiagha)
Education in Mozambique in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Antoinette Errante, Jessica Jorge)
Enslaved Africans in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (Ivan Armenteros-Martinez)
Forced Labor in Portuguese Africa (Zachary Kagan Guthrie)
Ideological and Technological Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic (Walter C. Rucker)
Islam and Emancipation (Sean Hanretta)
Kafuxi Ambari of Kisama (Crislayne Alfagali)
Namibia since Independence (Henning Melber)
Plantation Economy and Slavery in the Mascarene Islands (Indian Ocean) (Richard B. Allen)
Red Sea Slave Trade (Jonathan Miran)
Slavery in Luanda and Benguela (Mariana P. Candido, Vanessa Oliveira)
March 2022
Customary Law in Colonial East Africa (Harald Sippel)
Drug Use, Trade, and Policy in Africa (Neil Carrier, Gernot Klantschnig)
Ransoming of Captives and Redemption of Slaves in Sub-Saharan Africa (Jennifer Lofkrantz)
The International Congress of African Historians in Dar es Salaam (Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia)
Women in Sierra Leone (Sylvia Macauley)
February 2022
African Population and British Imperial Power, 1800-1970 (Karl Ittman)
African Religions in the Maghreb and the Middle East (Ismael Musa Montana)
ʿAlī Eisami Gazirmabe (Richard Anderson)
Archaeology of Christian Missions in Southern Africa (Chris Wingfield)
Early Slavery in Bantu and Nilotic-speaking Africa: The Evidence from Historical Linguistics’ (Marcos Leitão de Almeida, William FitzSimons)
Genesis of Chadic Polities (Augustin Holl)
History of Niger (Abdourahmane Idrissa)
Nehanda (Diana Jeater, Ruvimbo Rusike)
Policing, Surveillance, and Prisons in French Colonial West Africa (Kathleen Keller)
Routes to Emancipation in Egypt and the Sudan (Ahmad Alawad Sikainga)
Slavery in Decentralized Societies (David Glovsky)
Slavery in Pharaonic and Hellenistic Egypt (Antonio Loprieno)
Sources for the History of the Copperbelt (Duncan Money)
The Garamantes in North Africa in the Roman Period (David J. Mattingly)
The History of the Comoros Islands (Iain Walker)
The Horse in Southern Africa (Peter Mitchell)
The Maji-Maji War, 1905-1907 (Thaddeus Sunseri)
The Suppression of the Trans-Oceanic Slave Trade (Hideaki Suzuki)
The Tanganyika Rifles Mutiny (Timothy Parsons)
The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (Aidan Dodson)
Trans-Atlantic Trade in African Captives, Enslaved Africans in the Americas, and the Industrial Revolution in England (Joseph Inikori)
Women and Islam (Shobana Shankar)
Women in Côte d’Ivoire (Jeanne Maddox Toungara)
Women in Philosophy (African Feminist Philosophy) (Anaïs Angelo)
Women in Senegal (Donna Patterson)
January 2022
Multicultural Lives, Defiance and Liberation Politics in Namibia: The Getzen-Kerina Family History (Dag Henrichsen)
Queen Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba (Mariana Bracks Fonseca)
Routes to Emancipation in East Africa (Felicitas Becker, Michelle Liebst)
Uganda-Tanzania War (Charles Thomas)
Women in Algeria (Kamal Salhi)
Zanj Revolt in the Abbasid Caliphate (Iraq) (Adam Ali)
December 2021
Clements Musa Kadalie (Henry Dee)
Informal Economies (Ernest Aryeetey)
Nicholas Said (Mohammed Bashir Salau)
The Maghrib and the Medieval Mediterranean (Allen Fromherz)
Umkhnto we Sizwe (MK): The ANC's Armed Wing, 1961-1993 (Arianna Lissoni)
Urban Studies of Accra (Richard Grant)
November 2021
Ahmed Bâba at-Timbuktî (Hamadou Adama)
May 1968 in Africa: Revolt in Dakar (Omar Gueye)
Medieval/Christian Nubia (Alexandros Tsakos)
The Colonial History of Burkina Faso (Patrick Royer)
Women in Mozambique (Liazzat J. K. Bonate, Jonna Katto)
Women in Southern African History (Heike Becker)
Women’s Emancipation from Slavery in Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Patricia van der Spuy)
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