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Editors’ Introduction: “The Future of the African Past”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2022

Lorelle Semley Open the ORCID record for Lorelle Semley [Opens in a new window] ,
Teresa Barnes ,
Bayo Holsey  and
Egodi Uchendu Open the ORCID record for Egodi Uchendu [Opens in a new window]
Lorelle Semley*
Affiliation:
Department of History, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA01610, USA
Teresa Barnes
Affiliation:
Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL61801, USA
Bayo Holsey
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA30322, USA
Egodi Uchendu
Affiliation:
Department of History, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nsukka, Nigeria
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*Corresponding Author: lsemley@holycross.edu
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We signed on as the new editorial team of History in Africa (HIA) without knowing that we all sat on the precipice of tumultuous times. After over a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, global unrest calling for a reckoning on racial justice, and events that exposed the limits and fragility of democratic institutions, we are reminded of the importance of how people experience, remember, and chronicle the past. It is a weighty and fortuitous time to think about our craft as historians and how we develop methods for analyzing and revisiting sources. How do we want to highlight our unique approaches as historians of Africa, and how do we want to push our field of African history and our discipline of history, more broadly, in new directions? We salute and thank the previous team of HIA editors – Jan Jansen, Michel Doortmont, John Hanson, and Dmitri van den Bersselaar – for their excellent stewardship of the journal over many years.

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History in Africa , Volume 48 , June 2021 , pp. 1 - 8
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the African Studies Association

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