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: 22
     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
Aug
2022
Biography and History in Zimbabwe - The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe: Mujuru the Liberation Fighter and Kingmaker By Blessing-Miles Tendi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 348. $120.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9781108472890); $32.99, pape
Journal of African History
3
Aug
2022
The Worlding of Architectural Labor - Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War. By Łukasz Stanek. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 368. $60.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780691168708
Journal of African History
2
Aug
2022
The Lutheran Church and the Tanzanian State - Pragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church: Bishop Erasto N. Kweka's Life and Work By Amy Stambach and Aikande Kwayu. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. 150. $90.00, hardcover (ISBN: 978179360359
Journal of African History
2
Aug
2022
An Army's Complicated Legacy - Fighting and Writing: The Rhodesian Army at War and Postwar By Luise White. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. Pp. 304. $104.95, hardcover (ISBN: 9781478010623); $27.95, paperback (ISBN: 9781478011729); $27.95,
Journal of African History
2
Aug
2022
Work and Life on the Mission Station - Labour and Christianity in the Mission: African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926 By Michelle Liebst. Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2021. Pp. 240. $99.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9781847012753); $24.99, e-
Journal of African History
2
Aug
2022
Religion and Resistance in an Atlantic Biography - The Story of Rufino: Slavery, Freedom, and Islam in the Black Atlantic By João José Reis, Flávio dos Samtos Gomes, and Marcus J. M. de Carvalho. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 324. $3
Journal of African History
2
Aug
2022
‘To Satisfy My Savage Appetite’: Slavery, Belief, and Sexual Violence on the Mina (Gold) Coast, 1471–1571
Journal of African History
2
Aug
2022
Queering Colonialism - Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and The Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa By T. J. Tallie. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. Pp. 240. $100, hardcover (ISBN: 9781517905170); $25.00, paperback (ISBN:
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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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Beyond Agency: The African Peasantry, the State, and Tobacco in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe), 1900–80
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Making and unmaking the state in the Horn of Africa: A deep-time perspective
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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:
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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
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