Sam Severson
@sseverson.bsky.social
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Dad. Historian. Managing editor of
@thejah.bsky.social
.
reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
5 days ago
Read the new
#OpenAccess
article by John Thornton, “The Emergence of Social and Political Complexity in West
#CentralAfrica
” :
bit.ly/4hS1c59
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
15 days ago
Read the new
#OpenAccess
article by Felicitas Becker and Salvatory Nyanto on women’s beer brewing and livelihood strategies in
#Tabora
#Tanzania
after the end of
#slavery
:
bit.ly/3JwHI9q
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
26 days ago
Read the new featured review by Mark W. Deets detailing both “L’idée de la
#Casamance
autonome: Possibles et dettes morales de la situation coloniale au
#Senegal
” (Editions Karthala) by
@sevead.bsky.social
and the political storm surrounding its publication:
bit.ly/4n8zHFe
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
28 days ago
Read the new OA article by Abikal Borah on indentured labor in southeastern
#SouthAfrica
and relations between Indian and Zulu workers:
bit.ly/4nPKSns
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
29 days ago
Read the new OA article by Agata Błoch, Guillem Martos Oms, and Clodomir Santana on
#archives
,
#DigitalBias
,
#AI
, and the production of historical narratives:
bit.ly/4q4UGvD
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
29 days ago
Read the new OA
#HistoryMatters
piece by Leslye Obiora on
#BeninBronzes
and the
#Law
:
bit.ly/4nnyF8R
#Nigeria
#CulturalHeritage
#antiquities
#colonialism
#restitution
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
about 1 month ago
Read the new OA article by Oliver Coates on war correspondents from
#Nigeria
in
#Burma
in 1945:
bit.ly/4nO6BfN
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
about 1 month ago
Read the new OA History Matters piece by Cresa Pugh on legacies of the
#BeninBronzes
and
#Restitution
within the
#BlackAtlantic
bit.ly/48DRHnJ
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
about 1 month ago
Read the new OA article by David Damtar on
#Gender
and
#Mining
in colonial
#Ghana
bit.ly/48Uk5ln
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
about 2 months ago
Read the new review by Joshua Grace of Tasha Rijke-Epstein’s “Children of the Soil” (
@dukepress.bsky.social
).
#Madagascar
#Architecture
#UrbanHistory
bit.ly/3JZVEc2
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
2 months ago
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
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reposted by
Sam Severson
Niels Boender
2 months ago
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...
add a skeleton here at some point
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
2 months ago
Read the new OA article by
@nielsboender.bsky.social
‬ on the African Independent Pentecostal Church,
#decolonization
,
#land
, and
#reconciliation
in
#Kenya
:
bit.ly/46hPEUo
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
3 months ago
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
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reposted by
Sam Severson
John Aerni-Flessner
3 months ago
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!
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Sam Severson
Anjuli Webster
3 months ago
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! 📚
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
3 months ago
Read Paul T. Clarke’s new OA article on
#policing
,
#war
,
#mercantilism
, and the
#frontier
in Dutch
#SouthAfrica
:
bit.ly/47D7tyj
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reposted by
Sam Severson
Richard C. Keller, PhD
3 months ago
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.
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Check out the latest episode of the JAH podcast, featuring Ayo Adegbite in conversation with
@davidwilsonhist.bsky.social
about studying the history of fisheries management on
#LakeMalawi
. Find it on Apple, Spotify, and streaming here:
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-vyr4h...
OA article link:
bit.ly/4lmkjoT
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David Wilson on fisheries management in Lake Malawi
In this episode, David Wilson (University of Strathclyde) joins guest host Ayodeji Adegbite (Brown University) to discuss the Open Access article, "Colonialism, Governance, and Fisheries: Perspectives...
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-vyr4h-1915638
4 months ago
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
4 months ago
Check out the special issue of the International Journal of
#CulturalProperty
on "The
#AfricanRenaissance
and International Cultural Heritage
#Law
":
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Latest issue | International Journal of Cultural Property | Cambridge Core
International Journal of Cultural Property
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-cultural-property/latest-issue
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
4 months ago
In our latest
#OA
#HistoryMatters
piece, the team of Milo Gough, Bryson Nkhoma, Elias Chirwa,
@davidwilsonhist.bsky.social
‬, Charles Knapp, Tracy Morse, and Wapulumuka Mulwafu explore the history of present day
#Fisheries
management in
#LakeMalawi
:
bit.ly/4lmkjoT
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
4 months ago
Read the
#OA
article by
@araujohistorian.bsky.social
on
#FreeTrade
,
#Violence
, and
#Sovereignty
in
#WestCentralAfrica
during the era of the
#Transatlantic
#SlaveTrade
:
bit.ly/3GiTDGt
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
4 months ago
Read Peter Brooke’s latest article on
#Radio
,
#Gender
, and
#Development
in
#Ghana
and
#Zambia
:
bit.ly/4kzGLtf
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
4 months ago
Read the new
#OA
article by
@giotonolo.bsky.social
on the production and repression of palm alcohol in
#Benin
:
bit.ly/3TtjwWZ
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
4 months ago
In our latest
#OA
Featured Review, Khwezi Mkhize explores “Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala” (
@ohiounivpress.bsky.social
) by Joel Cabrita:
bit.ly/4eNh9Iq
#SouthAfrica
#biography
#arts
#apartheid
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
4 months ago
Interested in recent scholarship on
#Mali
? Check out this
#OA
piece by
@thiamm.bsky.social
, reviewing books by Richard Roberts and the late Moussa Sow:
bit.ly/430cvRx
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
12 months ago
The editors support
@sevead.bsky.social
, whose work is being unfairly instrumentalized for political ends:
tinyurl.com/26dyp6sv
She is a historian not a state agent. Her pathbreaking scholarship underwent rigorous peer-review to be published in this very journal.
#OA
link:
bit.ly/4i9J86r
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Au Sénégal, l'histoire de la Casamance sous la chape de la bataille électorale
À l’approche des élections législatives du 17 novembre, le livre d’une historienne française, Séverine Awenengo Dalberto, consacré à la Casamance, a enflammé le débat public. Avant même qu’il soit (…)
https://tinyurl.com/26dyp6sv
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reposted by
Sam Severson
John Aerni-Flessner
12 months ago
Interesting in hearing about the history of a failed
#ski
resort project in the
#apartheid-era
Bantustan of
#QwaQwa
and the border dispute with
#Lesotho
that scuttled it? The
@thejah.bsky.social
was kind enough to interview me for their podcast:
journalofafricanhistory.podbean.com
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The Journal of African History Podcast | The Journal of African History
The Journal of African History Podcast highlights interviews with historians whose work has appeared in The Journal of African History, a leading source of peer-reviewed scholarship on Africa’s past s...
https://journalofafricanhistory.podbean.com/
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
over 1 year ago
In our July issue, Gregory Mann explores
#democracy
and
#military
government.
#KhakiRule
#WestAfrica
#Sahel
#coups
#governance
 Read it
#OA
today:
bit.ly/3WkkRlz
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Really proud of this piece the editors put together for
#FreedomDay2024
. Happy 30th birthday South African democracy!
add a skeleton here at some point
over 1 year ago
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reposted by
Sam Severson
The Journal of African History
over 1 year ago
Read the new piece by
@anjuliwebster.bsky.social
in
#HistoryMatters
on
#FirstView
:
bit.ly/3T1QTPQ
Â
#water
#rivers
#SouthernAfrica
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reposted by
Sam Severson
Anjuli Webster
over 1 year ago
I wrote a short piece on 'Water and History in Southern Africa,' recently published OA in
@thejah.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S002...
Part of a bigger project thinking about how water has shaped the past and present.
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