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Out Now: Read The Western Sahara Fiasco of 1899 on FirstView to see how archival evidence illuminates why the Austro-Hungarian Empire failed to acquire colonies in Western Sahara https://doi.org/10.1017/hia.2025.10009

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We're excited to announce the first installment of our series History in Africa Author Interviews! Enjoy this conversation on Benin City, archives, & archeological approaches between HiA author Tomos Evans and ERB member Jeffrey Fleisher on YouTube. https://youtu.be/dgFEaivJJ6A?si=NpDywuR9lR7TL9rN

For International Workers' Day, Jennifer Hart suggests we reassess the Ga Shifimo Kpee, which opposed Nkrumah’s CPP through a drivers' strike in Accra. https://ow.ly/9baM50YTTBg #MayDay #LabourHistory #GhanaHistory #AfricanHistory #WorkersRights

In this new article in History in Africa, Carolyn Hamilton and John Wright revisit the oral histories of KwaZulu-Natal and find that political order entailed mobility and political flexibility. https://ow.ly/8cZl50YVLi5 #HistoryInAfrica #AfricanHistory #OralHistory #SouthAfrica #AcademicTwitter

Inviting submissions! Deadline for Vol. 54 - September 30, 2026 https://ow.ly/Y1bJ50YTExL #WestAfrica #EastAfrica #History #CFP #Archives #Africa #AfricanStudies

Discover the story of a 19th-century Dogon prophet whose poems still shape Bandiagara funeral rituals. Read the new article in History in Africa: https://ow.ly/TZ4v50YS2xv #AfricanHistory #Dogon

On Cinco de Mayo this THROWBACK article from 1980 documents the first Africans in Mexico, enslaved people brought over in the first years of Spanish occupation. https://ow.ly/eI2050YTTYs #CincoDeMayo #AfricanDiaspora #AfroMexican #HistoryInAfrica #AfricanStudies #MexicanHistory

Discover a little-known mid-century public intellectual in Uganda. Patrick Otim and Martin David Aliker uncover Reuben Anywar : Acholi’s overlooked 1940s scholar of Acholi history. A Makerere graduate and one of the first black teachers at the prestigious Gulu High school. https://ow.ly/VKKs50YTxiN

Check out this new article in History in Africa! Gabriele Rizzi Bastiani's article on Italian archives documenting secret negotiations between Fascist Italy and the Ethiopian Empire during and after the Italo-Ethiopian War (1935–1940) https://ow.ly/E43950YS2jP

While you're writing this summer, don' forget that @historyinafrica.bsky.social is seeking submissions that rethink and reimagine foundational methods and conceptualizations of archives/archival work in continental and diasporic contexts. https://africanstudies.org/featured-posts/hia-cfp-volume-54/

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Rethinking the Political Order in the KwaZulu-Natal Region in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: Fluidity, Mobility, and Flexibility

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Rethinking the Political Order in the KwaZulu-Natal Region in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: Fluidity, Mobility, and Flexibility | History in Africa | Cambridge Core

Steering the Nation? Drivers, Nationalism, and the Writing of History - Volume 52

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Steering the Nation? Drivers, Nationalism, and the Writing of History | History in Africa | Cambridge Core

The History in Africa editorial team is seeking submissions for volume 54.The Archive in an age of Epistemic AnxietyCall for Papers – History in Africa, Vol. 54 (2027) Building on our previous theme of the methods of diaspora and transoceanic mobility, the African Studies Association journal History in Africa invites scholars to rethink and reimagine the foundational methods and conceptualizations of archives and archival…

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HiA CFP: Volume 54 - African Studies Association Portal - ASA

The Singing Prophet of the Dogon. A Nineteenth Century Voice on Dogon-Fulbe Relations and his Legacy

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The Singing Prophet of the Dogon. A Nineteenth Century Voice on Dogon-Fulbe Relations and his Legacy | History in Africa | Cambridge Core

Black African Slaves at Valencia, 1482-1516: An Onomastic Inquiry - Volume 7

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Black African Slaves at Valencia, 1482-1516: An Onomastic Inquiry | History in Africa | Cambridge Core

Reuben Stephen Anywar: An Acholi Intellectual and the Production of Knowledge in Colonial Acholiland

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Reuben Stephen Anywar: An Acholi Intellectual and the Production of Knowledge in Colonial Acholiland | History in Africa | Cambridge Core

Negotiating Empire: The Secret Talks Between Italy and Ethiopia in Italian Archive Documents (1935–1940)

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Negotiating Empire: The Secret Talks Between Italy and Ethiopia in Italian Archive Documents (1935–1940) | History in Africa | Cambridge Core