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The Journal of African History is a peer-reviewed journal published by Cambridge University Press, covering African history and culture studies, Global Maritime and Colonial Histories, African history and culture analysis.
| 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, The Journal of African History 12 (2023) 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | African history and culture studies Global Maritime and Colonial Histories African history and culture analysis Colonialism, slavery, and trade African studies and sociopolitical issues |
| ISSN | 0021-8537 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 0.18 |
| h-index | 96 |
| i10-index | 1,130 |
| Total citations | 54,790 |
| Top institutions publishing here | SOAS University of London |
| Journal website | journals.cambridge.org |
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Infectious disease and concepts of public health, operating as societal metaphors, seem to have exercised a powerful influence on the origins and development of urban segregation in South Africa. Between 1900 and 1904 bubonic plague, threatening major centres, occasioned the mass removal of African urban populations to hastily established locations at the instigation of medical…
Exploring a range of studies regarding the ‘invention of tradition’, the ‘making of customary law’ and the ‘creation of tribalism’ since the 1980s, this survey article argues that the case for colonial invention has often overstated colonial power and ability to manipulate African institutions to establish hegemony. Rather, tradition was a complex discourse in which…
The paper re-examines principles of social organization in pre-colonial Equatorial Africa, suggesting that the imagery of ‘accumulation’ of ‘wealth in people’ is not wrong, but not flexible enough to encompass the centrality of knowledge in these societies. People were singularized repositories of a differentiated and expanding repertoire of knowledge, as well as being structured kin…
New linguistic evidence about the classification of the Bantu languages does not support the current view that these languages spread as the result of a massive migration or ‘expansion’ by its speakers. Rather the present geographic distribution of Bantu languages is the outcome of many complex historical dynamics involving successive dispersals of individual languages over…
The anthropological and historical literature dealing with Africa abounds with references to a people called the ‘Hamites’. ‘Hamite’, as used in these writings, designates an African population supposedly distinguished by its race— Caucasian—and its language family, from the Negro inhabitants of the rest of Africa below the Sahara. There exists a widely held belief in…
