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: 2
References per paper:
     Average: 24
     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
28
Aug
2021
Political Theology in Nineteenth-Century West Africa: Al-Ḥājj ʿUmar, the Bayān mā waqaʿa, and the Conquest of the Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi
Journal of African History
27
Aug
2021
MOLINACO, the Comorian Diaspora, and Decolonisation in East Africa's Indian Ocean Gold Open Access
Journal of African History
16
Aug
2021
Race, Tourism, and Conservation in South Africa - Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park By Jacob S. T. Dlamini. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2020. Pp. 350. $36.95, paperback (ISBN: 978-0-8214-2409-4); $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9
Journal of African History
16
Aug
2021
States, Archives, and the Vivid Past - A History of West Central Africa to 1850 By John K. Thornton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xx + 384. $99.99, hardcover (ISBN: 9781107127159).
Journal of African History
13
Aug
2021
Africa in The Cuban Imagination - Beyond Cuban Waters: África, La Yuma, and the Island's Global Imagination By Paul Ryer. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2018. Pp. 240. $39.95, paperback (ISBN: 0826521193).
Journal of African History
13
Aug
2021
Masculinity in the Atlantic World - Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age By Ndubueze L. Mbah. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. 296. $34.95, paperback (ISBN: 978-0-8214-2389-9); $80.00, hardcover
Journal of African History
13
Aug
2021
An Ocean of Debt and Possibility - Buying Time: Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean By Thomas F. McDow. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2018. Pp. 378. $36.95, paperback, (ISBN: 978-0-8214-2282-3); $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 978-0-8214-2281-6).
Journal of African History
6
Aug
2021
Contested Numbers: Census Controversies and the Press in 1960s Nigeria Gold Open Access
Journal of African History

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Impactful Papers

Altmetric Attention Score: 53
Biometrics, Race Making, And White Exceptionalism: The Controversy Over Universal Fingerprinting In Kenya
Journal of African History2020-03-31

Altmetric Attention Score: 53
MOLINACO, the Comorian Diaspora, and Decolonisation in East Africa's Indian Ocean Gold Open Access
Journal of African History2021-08-27

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
‘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: 22
‘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: 20
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: 17
‘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

Altmetric Attention Score: 16
Politics On Liberation's Frontiers: Student Activist Refugees, International Solidarity, And The Struggle For Zimbabwe, 1965–79
Journal of African History2021-05-11


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Cited median publication year:
2000

Scholars
Authors who recently published in Journal of African History:
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