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:
• 47 / 108 in History

Authors per paper:
     Average: 1
     Median: 1
References per paper:
     Average: 23
     Median: 9

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

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

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Latest papers
24
Jan
2022
Child Trafficking after Abolition - The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria By Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020. Pp. 224. $26.95, paperback (ISBN: 9781625345240).
Journal of African History
21
Jan
2022
Abolition and the Registration of Slaves and Libertos in Portuguese Mozambique, 1856–76
Journal of African History
21
Jan
2022
Political Theology in Nineteenth-Century West Africa: Al-Ḥajj ʿUmar, the Bayān mā waqaʿa, and the Conquest of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi – ADDENDUM
Journal of African History
31
Dec
2021
An Archive of Colonial Propaganda - Visualizing Empire: Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation Edited by Rebecca Peabody, Steven Nelson, and Dominic Thomas. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2021. Pp vii + 200. $55.00, paperback (ISBN: 97
Journal of African History
31
Dec
2021
Action on the Margins - Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa: The Centrality of the Margins By Paul Nugent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xx + 616. $39.99, paperback (ISBN: 9781107622500); $32.00, e-book (ISBN: 978110
Journal of African History
31
Dec
2021
Writing with Light - Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History Edited by Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. 376. $36.95, paperback (ISBN: 978-0-8214-2394-3); $90.00, hardcover (ISBN: 978-0-8214-23
Journal of African History
27
Dec
2021
Another World? East Africa, Decolonisation, and the Global History of the Mid-Twentieth Century Gold Open Access
Journal of African History
9
Dec
2021
Africans in Exile: Mobility, Law and Identity Edited by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Nathan Riley Carpenter – CORRIGENDUM
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: 24
A Nomadic State? The ‘blemmyean-beja’ Polity Of The Ancient Eastern Desert
Journal of African History2021-02-11

Altmetric Attention Score: 23
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: 21
‘have You Ever Captured Anything For Your Parents?’ War, Captivity, And Slavery On The Precolonial Southern African Highveld, C.1800–71
Journal of African History2019-05-16

Altmetric Attention Score: 20
Moving Beyond Colonial Control? Economic Forces And Shifting Migration From Ruanda-urundi To Buganda, 1920–60
Journal of African History2019-11-29


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Socioeconomic Status and Group Belonging: Evidence from Early-Nineteenth-Century Colonial West Africa
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Action on the Margins - Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa: The Centrality of the Margins By Paul Nugent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xx + 616. $39.99, paperback (ISBN: 9781107622500); $32.00, e-book (ISBN: 978110
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27
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2021
Another World? East Africa, Decolonisation, and the Global History of the Mid-Twentieth Century
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Cited median publication year:
1999

Scholars
Authors who recently published in Journal of African History:
Scholar Affiliation
Giulia Paoletti N/A
Mark W. Deets N/A
ISMAY MILFORD N/A
Jorge Felipe Gonzalez N/A
Khaled Esseissah N/A
George Roberts N/A
Amir Syed N/A
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