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Dr Francesca Baldwin · 8 April 2026

Manhood, Money and Survival: Rethinking Child Soldiers in Somalia

Why understanding contemporary youth militancy demands history Al-Shabaab fighters patrolling Afgooye-Mogadishu road (2025) In civil war-era Somalia in the early 1990s, global media headlines about ‘stoned teenagers’ cruising Mogadishu on jeeps mounted with machine guns became synonymous with the construction of Somalia as a ‘chaotic African country’ in which one could be killed for nothing more than ‘the clothes on your back’ (New York Times, 1992).…

Vincent Bonnecase and Leyla Dakhli · 1 April 2021

Economic liberalism and social revolts in Africa and the Middle East

This special issue looks at the revolts and other, often contentious, social responses to the forced liberalization programs in Africa and the Middle East from the 1970s to the present day...

Ismay Milford · 6 February 2020

Federation, partnership, and the chronologies of space in 1950s East and Central Africa

My article traces four ‘sketches’ of East and Central African interdependence, charting how the Federation constrained possibilities for wider regional anti-colonial coordination. The Nairobi Anti-Federation League shows that in 1952 the Federation was considered an East African problem too.

Anaïs Angelo · 10 October 2019

African Presidents Have a History Too

Whenever an African president is elected, re-elected, leaves power or dies in office, the almost unlimited scope of presidential power in African countries is, once again, on the agenda.…

Kingsley Madueke · 16 April 2019

Mobile armed mobs in deadly riots

Experts on ethnic riots agree that the ethnic composition of localities affects their susceptibility to violence. They are however divided on which are more prone to turmoil between ethnically segregated and diverse settings.…

Written by Stephanie Kitchen, Managing Editor · 19 April 2018

Call For Africa Bibliography Introductory Papers

Articles of 5,000-8,000 words on topics relating to research, libraries, archives and publishing in and on Africa, and in African studies, are invited.…

Kerr Alexander · 3 February 2015

The politics of exclusion and inclusion in Africa

Adapted from the introductory article to the latest issue of Africa, a special issue themed around xenophobia, guest editors Laurent Fourchard and Aurelia Segatti expand on the theme of the special issue and articles.…

Kerr Alexander · 12 November 2014

The Uncertainty of Help

What role do local institutions of mutual security play in managing the growing economic and political uncertainties in African communities today?…

Kerr Alexander · 8 September 2014

Africa and the Indian Ocean

‘Performing Citizenship and Enacting Exclusion On Africa’s Indian Ocean Littoral’ is the latest special feature from The Journal of African History.…

Becky Roberts · 17 July 2013

Too Many Skeletons in the Closet to Box Me In: Understanding African Diaspora Art

An internationally leading and groundbreaking scholar and curator, Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins provides a powerful and compellingly argued thought-piece to accompany the publication of Stephane Lewthwaite’s Special Issue, “Art Across Frontiers: Cross-cultural Encounters in America.…

Becky Roberts · 19 June 2013

Inside African Anthropology. Monica Wilson and Her Interpreters

Drawing on a massive personal archive, ‘Inside African Anthropology. Monica Wilson and Her Interpreters‘ offers rare insights into the history and making of southern African anthropology through an analysis of the life and work of Monica Wilson, amongst South Africa’s most distinguished anthropologists.…

Becky Roberts · 24 May 2013

Introducing The Journal of African History forum

The latest issue of the newly redesigned The Journal of African History (JAH) includes the first special Forum on Health and Illness in African History.…

Becky Roberts · 18 October 2012

Half a century of publishing, a fond farewell and lots of cake

The September 2012 African Studies Association UK meeting (ASAUK) was one to remember. Not only did it coincide with the 50th anniversary of The Journal of Modern African Studies (JMAS), it also marked the retirement of Professor Christopher Clapham from the Editorship of the Journal.…

How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability

Holly Pascoe · 8 February 2023

The 33%: Q&A with Dame Anna Dominiczak

Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science

Alexandra R. Lampard-Scotford · 23 August 2022

The impact of parasite infection on mental illness

More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.

Dr Dami Ajayi · 28 March 2022

Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths

APSR Authors · 15 December 2020

Conversations with Authors: Institutionalized Police Brutality

This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…

Karen Stollznow · 15 November 2024

Sluts, Bitches, and Battle-axes: women and insults

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