Read the new #OpenAccess article by John Thornton, “The Emergence of Social and Political Complexity in West #CentralAfrica” : bit.ly/4hS1c59

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

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

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 Błoch, 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-Epstein’s “Children of the Soil” (@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

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! 📚

Read Paul T. Clarke’s 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.

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

Check out the special issue of the International Journal of #CulturalProperty on "The #AfricanRenaissance and International Cultural Heritage #Law": www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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

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

Read Peter Brooke’s latest article on #Radio, #Gender, and #Development in #Ghana and #Zambia: bit.ly/4kzGLtf

Read the new #OA article by @giotonolo.bsky.social on the production and repression of palm alcohol in #Benin: bit.ly/3TtjwWZ

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

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

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

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

In our July issue, Gregory Mann explores #democracy and #military government. #KhakiRule #WestAfrica #Sahel #coups #governance   Read it #OA today: bit.ly/3WkkRlz

Really proud of this piece the editors put together for #FreedomDay2024. Happy 30th birthday South African democracy!

Read the new piece by @anjuliwebster.bsky.social in #HistoryMatters on #FirstView: bit.ly/3T1QTPQ  #water #rivers #SouthernAfrica

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.