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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:

• 26 / 99 in History (Web of Science 2019)

Authors per paper:
     Average: 1
     Median: 1
References per paper:
     Average: 24
     Median: 10

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Latest papers

Apr

2021

The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Sleeping Sickness, Onchocerciasis, And Unintended Consequences In Ghana, 1930–60

Journal of African History

Apr

2021

HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, AND ORATURE IN PRECOLONIAL WEST AFRICA - Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past: Essays in Honour of Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias. Edited by Toby Green and Benedetta Rossi. Leiden: Brill, 2018. Pp.

Journal of African History

Apr

2021

AQUATIC CULTURES IN THE ATLANTIC DIASPORA - Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora. By Kevin Dawson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. 360. $45.00, hardcover (ISBN: 978-0-8122-4989-7).

Journal of African History

Apr

2021

COLONIAL TRANSACTIONS AND HISTORIES IN GABON - Colonial Transactions: Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon. By Florence Bernault. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 332. $27.95, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-4780-0158-4); $104.95, hardcover

Journal of African History

Apr

2021

NIGERIA AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR - Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict. By Chima J. Korieh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 298. £29.99, hardcover (ISBN: 9781108425803).

Journal of African History

Apr

2021

ISLAMIC INTELLECTUAL HISTORY IN WEST AFRICA - Jihad of the Pen: The Sufi Literature of West Africa. Edited by Rudolph Ware, Zachary Wright, and Amir Syed. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2018. Pp. 320. $59.95, hardcover (ISBN: 9789774168635

Journal of African History

Apr

2021

Journal of African History

Mar

2021

EXILE, NARRATIVE, AND MIGRATION IN AFRICAN HISTORY - Africans in Exile: Mobility, Law and Identity. Edited by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Nathan Riley Carpenter. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2018. Pp. 384. $35.00, paperback (ISBN: 9780253038081

Journal of African History

Mar

2021

Disaster In A ‘plural Society’: Cyclones, Decolonization, And Modern Afro-mauritian Identity

Journal of African History

Mar

2021

RADIO AND THE ROAD: INFRASTRUCTURE, MOBILITY, AND POLITICAL CHANGE IN THE BEGINNINGS OF RADIO RURALE DE KAYES (1980–EARLY 2000s)

Journal of African History

Mar

2021

‘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 History

Mar

2021

LAW, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY IN COLONIAL ALGERIA - Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930. By Judith Surkis. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. xvi + 333. $29.95, paperback (ISBN: 9781501739507).

Journal of African History

Mar

2021

EDUCATION AND NATION BUILDING IN ETHIOPIA - Eduquer la nation en Ethiopie: École, état et identité dans le Wolaita (1941–1991). By Pierre Guidi. Rennes, France: Presses universitaires de Rennes and IRD éditions, 2020. Pp. 350. €30.00, paperback (ISBN: 978

Journal of African History

Mar

2021

KENYATTA'S LEGACY IN KENYA - Power and the Presidency in Kenya: The Jomo Kenyatta Years. By Anaïs Angelo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. ix + 306. $99.99, hardcover (ISBN: 9781108494045); $29.99, paperback (ISBN: 9781108713832).

Journal of African History

Mar

2021

CONCRETE AND URBAN HISTORY IN MOZAMBIQUE - Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique. By David Morton. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. 336. $34.95, paperback (ISBN: 978-0-8214-2368-4); $90.00, hardcover

Journal of African History

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Impactful Papers

A Nomadic State? The ‘blemmyean-beja’ Polity Of The Ancient Eastern Desert

Journal of African History2021-02-11

‘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

The History Of African Poverty By Numbers: Evidence And Vantage Points

Journal of African History2019-01-16

Disaster In A ‘plural Society’: Cyclones, Decolonization, And Modern Afro-mauritian Identity

Journal of African History2021-03-29

Islam In The Interior Of Precolonial East Africa: Evidence From Lake Tanganyika

Journal of African History2019-08-20

ZORA NEALE HURSTON AND A FORMER SLAVE FROM AFRICA - Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo’. By Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Harper Collins, 2018. Pp. 208. $24.99, hardback (ISBN: 9780062748201).

Journal of African History2019-08-20

Procedure As Politics In The Cape Colony: The Career Of Andrew Gontshi, 1880–1904

Journal of African History2021-01-29

‘it's All Work And Happiness On The Farms’: Agricultural Development Between The Blocs In Nkrumah's Ghana

Journal of African History2019-05-16

Moving Beyond Colonial Control? Economic Forces And Shifting Migration From Ruanda-urundi To Buganda, 1920–60

Journal of African History2019-11-29

Colonial Itineraries: Muhammadu Dikko's Metropolitan Adventures

Journal of African History2020-08-07

Biometrics, Race Making, And White Exceptionalism: The Controversy Over Universal Fingerprinting In Kenya

Journal of African History2020-03-31

‘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

The KitĀb Al-turjumĀn: A Twentieth-century Historiographical (re)mapping Of The Southern Sahara And Sahel

Journal of African History2021-01-20

SLEEPING SICKNESS IN EASTERN AFRICA - The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890–1920. By Mari K. Webel. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 272. $34.95, paperback (ISBN: 978-0-8214-2400-1); $80.00, hardcover

Journal of African History2021-02-01

Thoughts On The Western Savannah And Sahel

Journal of African History2021-01-13

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