Read the new #OpenAccess article by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez on the #Ovambo #Genocide in #Angola. #colonialism #Portugal #violence #famine
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Read the the new #OpenAccess article by Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta MougouΓ© on #faith, #emotion, political kinship, and #transnational connections as told through the fascinating story of Enoch Olinga. #Uganda #Baha'iFaith
Link: bit.ly/4tKNyGH
Read the new #OpenAccess article by Stephen Volz on #SolPlaatje, #KorantaEaBecoana, and the pursuit of Multiethnic Liberalism in #SouthAfrica:
bit.ly/3Ow1Dat
Looking for some fascinating weekend listening? Abou Bamba, @michmo.bsky.social, Moses Ochonu, and Thula Simpson join @sseverson.bsky.social to talk breakthroughs, trends, and challenges in #AfricanHistory we saw in last yearβs vol. On Apple, Spotify, and streaming:
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-4ywb9...
So proud of this episode with @michmo.bsky.social, Abou Bamba, Moses Ochonu, and Thula Simpson, who each brought such thoughtfulness and honesty to our JAH Vol. 66 retrospective. Grateful to work with these brilliant editors!
ποΈ: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-4ywb9...
"'The Net That Catches the Most Fish': Fishing, Innovation, & Law in the Gold Coast Colony (Ghana), c. 1898β1923" now published @thejah.bsky.social.
This article was in the works for several years, very pleased to see it out. Thank you to the editors & reviewers.
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Read the new #OpenAccess article by @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social on #fishing and #law in #Ghana:
bit.ly/45CFld3
I'm pleased to announce that my article has been published in the flagshipΒ @thejah.bsky.social. #WestAfrica #Ghana #Senegal #UnitedStates #UnitedNations #Economics #Development #Decolonization #Imperialism #Brightgyamfi
Read the new #OpenAccess article by @gyamfiphd.bsky.social on #NeoColonialism, #Underdevelopment, #Economics, and IDEP:
bit.ly/3Ys21bK
Read the new #OpenAccess article by @ccm541.bsky.social on #women nanga players and #history telling in Western #Uganda:
bit.ly/3K9jdPN
In our latest podcast episode, Mark Deets joins editor Abou Bamba to discuss his featured review of βLβidΓ©e de la #Casamance autonomeβ by @sevead.bsky.social, and #AcademicFreedom, #HistoricalContingency, and #politics in #Senegal:
Streaming: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-axcej...
Review: bit.ly/4n8zHFe
Read the new #OpenAccess article by Chepchirchir Tirop on #sports, #stadiums, and Moiβs transnational populist #politics in #Kenya:
bit.ly/3K1y6nj
Read the new #OpenAccess article by John Thornton, βThe Emergence of Social and Political Complexity in West #CentralAfricaβ :
bit.ly/4hS1c59
Read the new #OpenAccess article by Felicitas Becker and Salvatory Nyanto on womenβs beer brewing and livelihood strategies in #Tabora #Tanzania after the end of #slavery:
bit.ly/3JwHI9q
Read the new featured review by Mark W. Deets detailing both βLβidΓ©e de la #Casamance autonome: Possibles et dettes morales de la situation coloniale au #Senegalβ (Editions Karthala) by @sevead.bsky.social and the political storm surrounding its publication:
bit.ly/4n8zHFe
Read the new OA article by Abikal Borah on indentured labor in southeastern #SouthAfrica and relations between Indian and Zulu workers:
bit.ly/4nPKSns
Read the new OA article by Agata BΕoch, Guillem Martos Oms, and Clodomir Santana on #archives, #DigitalBias, #AI, and the production of historical narratives:
bit.ly/4q4UGvD
Read the new OA #HistoryMatters piece by Leslye Obiora on #BeninBronzes and the #Law:
bit.ly/4nnyF8R
#Nigeria #CulturalHeritage #antiquities #colonialism #restitution
Read the new OA article by Oliver Coates on war correspondents from #Nigeria in #Burma in 1945:
bit.ly/4nO6BfN
Read the new OA History Matters piece by Cresa Pugh on legacies of the #BeninBronzes and #Restitution within the #BlackAtlantic
bit.ly/48DRHnJ
Read the new OA article by David Damtar on #Gender and #Mining in colonial #Ghana
bit.ly/48Uk5ln
Read the new review by Joshua Grace of Tasha Rijke-Epsteinβs βChildren of the Soilβ (@dukepress.bsky.social). #Madagascar #Architecture #UrbanHistory
bit.ly/3JZVEc2
In the latest OA #HistoryMatters piece, JAH #WestAfrica editor Moses Ochonu writes about the rise and implications of what he terms the new instrumental turn in historical scholarship in #Nigeria:
bit.ly/3JExPWV
Very happy to see my latest article published with
@thejah.bsky.social - the second in what will be a trilogy of articles on the legacy of Mau Mau and local politics in Central Kenya. In this article, I take a look at the African Independent Pentecostal Church, the religious arm...
Read the new OA article by @nielsboender.bsky.social⬠on the African Independent Pentecostal Church, #decolonization, #land, and #reconciliation in #Kenya:
bit.ly/46hPEUo
Read the new OA article by @caitlinbarker.bsky.social on the #diplomacy carried out by #women from #Cameroon in #China during the era of #decolonization:
bit.ly/4mGMdg6
A book jacket with a picture of mountains and a reservoir. The title reads: White Gold and Thirsty Communities: The Cold War, Apartheid, and the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.
Just received the cover for my latest book! Coming in February 2026 to a bookstore near you in Southern Africa (available in North America and Europe, too), but published in RSA. Exciting stuff!
Paul Clarke is doing incredible work on the global history of policing and abolition. Here he makes several key interventions in the historiography of race and the frontier in South Africa.
A must read! π
Read Paul T. Clarkeβs new OA article on #policing, #war, #mercantilism, and the #frontier in Dutch #SouthAfrica:
bit.ly/47D7tyj
AI will never locate a new archive. It will never uncover a new source. It will never find a small, privately held collection of papers that can upend what we think we know about the past. It can never work with undigitized sources. It can never do real oral history or ethnography.
