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History in Africa is a peer-reviewed journal published by Cambridge University Press, covering African history and culture studies, Global Maritime and Colonial Histories, Colonialism, slavery, and trade.
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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| Reference style | Numbered Numbered — [1], [2] in the text [1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, A representative article title, History in Africa 12 (2023) 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | African history and culture studies Global Maritime and Colonial Histories Colonialism, slavery, and trade African history and culture analysis African studies and sociopolitical issues |
| ISSN | 0361-5413 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 0.52 |
| h-index | 44 |
| i10-index | 301 |
| Total citations | 10,507 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Journal website | journals.cambridge.org |
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Ethnicity was evidently critical for the operation of the Atlantic slave trade, on both the African and the European sides of the trade. For Africans, given the general convention against enslaving fellow citizens, ethnic identities served to define a category of “others” who were legitimately enslavable. For African Muslims this function was performed by religion,…
A great deal has been written in recent decades about the Atlantic slave trade, including the mechanics and terms of purchase, but relatively little about what Africans received in return for the slaves and other exports such as gold and ivory. And yet, if one is trying to reconstruct the material culture of, say, the…
“Settlements of foreign, predominantly Semitic, peoples” Strandes' gambit concerning ‘Muslim Civilization’ of the east coast of Africa is a familiar one to many Africanists. Persians and Arabs, so the stories go, settled coastal sites as part of the Islamic diaspora; they vanquished less virile African societies; they built cities which were reflections of Middle Eastern…
Judging from a number of recent publications, the long-running debate over the origins of iron smelting in sub-Saharan Africa has been resolved… in favor of those advocating independent invention. For Gérard Quéchon, the French archeologist to whom we owe very early dates for iron metallurgy from the Termit Massif in Niger, “indisputably, in the present…
While the historiography of art as an academic discipline can hardly be construed as a science, it is nevertheless governed by certain dominant paradigms in both of the senses that Thomas Kuhn intended. First, at any point in time there is a constellation of beliefs, values, and techniques shared by the community of scholars who…
