Journal of African History

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Basic Information
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Founded in: 1960
Homepage: https://www.cambridge.org/core...
Twitter: @JAH_editors
Category: History
Rank:
• 25 / 102 in History

Authors per paper:
     Average: 1
     Median: 1
References per paper:
     Average: 21
     Median: 8

Journal Impact Factor (JIF) for Journal of African History:

  • 2021 Impact Factor: 0.848
  • 2020 Impact Factor: 0.647
  • 2019 Impact Factor: 0.658
  • 2018 Impact Factor: 0.641

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Latest papers
3
Dec
2022
Changes in the (Namibian) Land - Shaping the African Savannah: From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia By Michael Bollig. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 425. $99.99, hardcover (ISBN: 9781108488488); $31.99, paperback (ISB
Journal of African History
3
Dec
2022
Religion and Nationalism in South Sudan - Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan By Christopher Tounsel. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. Pp. 205. $99.95, hardcover (ISBN: 9781478010630); $25.95, paperback (ISBN: 978
Journal of African History
3
Dec
2022
African Medicine in the Atlantic World - Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500-1850 By Kalle Kananoja. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 320. $99.99, hardcover (ISBN: 9781108491259); $80.00, e-book (ISBN: 978
Journal of African History
3
Dec
2022
Political Authority and Rural Development - Village Work: Development and Rural Statecraft in Twentieth-Century Ghana By Alice Wiemers. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 250. $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780821424452); $34.95, paperback (ISBN:
Journal of African History
3
Dec
2022
The Muridiyya Diaspora - Muridiyya on the Move: Islam, Migration, and Place Making By Cheikh Babou. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2021. Pp. 326. $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780821424377); $36.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780821424674); e-book (ISBN: 978082
Journal of African History
3
Dec
2022
A Multimedia History of a Musical Genre - Cool Running: The Story of Ghana's Honk Horn Lorries and Por Por Music By Nii Yemo Nunu, Steven Feld, and Hannah Schreckenbach. Santa Fe: VoxLox, 2020. $40.00, multimedia collection (hardcover book, music C
Journal of African History
3
Dec
2022
Ethnic Othering and Governance in Imperial Ethiopia - The Other Abyssinians: The Northern Oromo and the Creation of Modern Ethiopia, 1855–1913 By Brian J. Yates. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2020. Pp. 246. $110.00, hardcover (ISBN:
Journal of African History
8
Nov
2022
John Garang On Air: Radio Battles in Sudan's Second Civil War
Journal of African History

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Impactful Papers

Altmetric Attention Score: 54
Biometrics, Race Making, And White Exceptionalism: The Controversy Over Universal Fingerprinting In Kenya
Journal of African History2020-03-31

Altmetric Attention Score: 54
MOLINACO, the Comorian Diaspora, and Decolonisation in East Africa's Indian Ocean Gold Open Access
Journal of African History2021-08-27

Altmetric Attention Score: 35
Another World? East Africa, Decolonisation, and the Global History of the Mid-Twentieth Century Gold Open Access
Journal of African History2021-12-27

Altmetric Attention Score: 25
A Nomadic State? The ‘blemmyean-beja’ Polity Of The Ancient Eastern Desert
Journal of African History2021-02-11

Altmetric Attention Score: 24
Enslaved Muslim Sufi Saints in the Nineteenth-Century Sahara: The Life of Bilal Ould Mahmoud
Journal of African History2021-09-30

Altmetric Attention Score: 23
‘if You Trouble A Hungry Snake, You Will Force It To Bite You’: Rethinking Postcolonial African Archival Pessimism, Worker Discontent, And Petition Writing In Ghana, 1957–66
Journal of African History2021-03-26

Altmetric Attention Score: 23
Moving Beyond Colonial Control? Economic Forces And Shifting Migration From Ruanda-urundi To Buganda, 1920–60
Journal of African History2019-11-29

Altmetric Attention Score: 19
‘my Training Is Deeply Christian And I Am Against Violence’: Jason Sendwe, The Balubakat, And The Katangese Secession, 1957–64
Journal of African History2020-08-13


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Cited Half-Life

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Cited median publication year:
1999

Scholars
Authors who recently published in Journal of African History:
Scholar Affiliation
David Newman Glovsky N/A
Lynn Schler N/A
Laura Helen Phillips N/A
Samuel Fury Childs Daly N/A
Sarah Van Beurden N/A
John Cropper N/A
Safia Aidid N/A
Jean Allman N/A
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