African Studies Hub
Welcome to our African Studies Hub page, where you can browse the latest books and journals in this area of study.
Editorial Contacts:
Maria Marsh, Books
maria.marsh@cambridge.org
Mark Zadrozny, Journals
mark.zadrozny@cambridge.org
Featured Titles in African Studies
African Studies Journals
African Studies Journals - New from Cambridge University Press
New Approaches to African History series
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African Peacekeeping
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Africa since 1940
Visit our New Approaches to African History series page to see a full list of titles.
African Studies series
Visit our African Studies series page to see a full list of titles.
The International African Library series
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Relative Distance
Visit our The International African Library series page to see a full list of titles.
African Identities: Past and Present
Visit our African Identities: Past and Present series page to see a full list of titles.
Area Studies Blog Posts - Core
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Meet the Editors: Tristan R. Grunow and Mary M. McCarthy, Editors for Asian-Pacific Journal
- 17 March 2025,
- We are pleased to introduce ourselves to the Cambridge Core family as the co-editors of Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. Tristan is a professor of modern...
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Military Intimacies: Peruvian Veterans and Narratives about Sex and Violence
- 11 February 2025,
- Many researchers and writers have considered the question why soldiers in conflict situations rape civilian and enemy populations. Few works have been able...
African History Blog Posts - FifteenEightyFour
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Who is an Explorer?
- 20 November 2023,
- When the submersible Titan imploded on its descent to the wreckage of the Titanic The post Who is an Explorer? first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....
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Beyond the Holiday Season: Gifts and the Atlantic Slave Trade
- 16 November 2023,
- If you have been following the news in the past months, you may have read that Democrats in the United States reported that the White House under Donald Trump The post Beyond the Holiday Season: Gifts and the Atlantic Slave Trade first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....
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Plunder for Profit: The ‘tobacco Mafia’ and the twenty first century new tobacco epidemic
- 28 April 2023,
- In March and April 2023, Al Jazeera’s investigative unit released a documentary series on gold smuggling, money laundering, corruption, and organised The post Plunder for Profit: The ‘tobacco Mafia’ and the twenty first century new tobacco epidemic first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....