International Journal of African Historical Studies

Recent Articles

Our list of recent articles includes those published in the last three volumes of the IJAHS. For earlier articles please consult JSTOR or your local library.

Copyright 2007 by the Board of Trustees of Boston University

Volume 40, Number 2, 2007   

Urbanizing Mystical Islam: Making Murid Space in the Cities of Senegal
by Cheikh Anta Babou, 197

“Oziosi, vagabondi e pregiudicati”: Labor, Law, and Crime in Colonial Asmara, 1890–1941
by Francesca Locatelli, 225

Black But Not African: Francophone Black Diaspora and the Revue des Colonies, 1834–1842
by Kelly Duke Bryant, 251

The Master Narrative of South Africa’s Liberation Struggle: Remembering and Forgetting June 16, 1976
by Gary Baines, 283


Volume 40, Number 1, 2007

Special Issue: Continuities in Governance in Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial East Africa
Guest Editors: Andrew Burton and Michael Jennings

Introduction: The Emperor’s New Clothes? Continuities in Governance in Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial East Africa
by Andrew Burton and Michael Jennings, 1

Creating Continuity: Liberal Governance and Dissidence in Njombe, Tanzania, 1960–61
by James L. Giblin, 27

The Lanet Incident, 2–25 January 1964: Military Unrest and National Amnesia in Kenya
by Timothy Parsons, 51

“A Very Real War”: Popular Participation in Development in Tanzania During the 1950s & 1960s
by Michael Jennings, 71

Useful Instruments of Participation? Local Government and Cooperatives in Tanzania, 1940s to 1970s
by Andreas Eckert, 97

The Haven of Peace Purged: Tackling the Undesirable and Unproductive Poor in Dar es Salaam, ca. 1950s–1980s
by Andrew Burton, 119

Volume 39, Number 3, 2006

Pastoralism, Slavery, Commerce, Culture and the Fate of the Nubians of Northern And Central Kordofan under Dar Fur Rule, ca.1750–ca.1850
by Jay Spaulding, 393

“Landlords of Onitsha”: Urban Land, Accumulation, and Debates over Custom in Colonial Eastern Nigeria, ca. 1880–1945
by Patrick Mbajekwe, 413

Fashioning Sexuality: Desire, Manyema Ethnicity, and the Creation of the Kanga, ca. 1880–1900
by Sheryl McCurdy, 441

Volume 39, Number 2, 2006

“A Solitary Tree Builds Not”: Heshima, Community, and Shifting Identity in Post-Emancipation Pemba Island           
by Elisabeth McMahon, 197

“The Rupee Disease”: Taxation, Authority, and Social Conditions in Early Colonial Uganda
by Michael W. Tuck, 221

Elite Slaves in Ilorin in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
by Ann O’Hear, 247

War and Mobility in the Borderlands of South Western Africa in the Early Twentieth Century
by Tilman Dedering, 275

Volume 39, Number 1, 2006

"Not a 'Cloth Giver'": Entitlement, Hunger and Illicit Transfers on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1886-1890
by Ruth Rempel, 1

"A Little Bit Like a Valcano"-The United Progressive Party and Resistance to One-Party Rule in Zambia, 1964-1980
by Miles Larmer, 49

"We Are Made Quiet by This Annihilation": Historicizing Concepts of Bodily Pollution and Dangerous Sexuality in South Africa
by Benedict Carton, 85

People, Not Pots: Locally Produced Ceramics and Identity on the Nineteenth-Century East African Coast,
by Sarah Croucher and Stephanie Wynne-Jones, 107

Volume 38, Number 3, 2005

Pirates, Slavers, and the Indigenous Population in Madagascar, c. 1690–1715
by Arne Bialuschewski , 401

Grandfathers, Grandsons, Morality, and Radical Politics in Late Colonial Buganda
by Carol Summers, 427

Passengers, Partnerships, and Promissory Notes: Gujarati Traders in Colonial Natal, 1870–1920
by Goolam Vahed, 449

Democratizing Cinema and Censorship in Tanzania, 1920–1980
by James R. Brennan, 481

REVIEW ESSAY
Making Poverty History
by A. G. Hopkins, 513

Volume 38, Number 2, 2005

Displaced People, Displaced Energy, and Displaced Memories: The Case of Cahora Bassa, 1970-2004
by Allen Isaacman, 201

Imprisonment and Colonialism in Kenya, c. 1930-1952": Escaping the Carceral Archipelago
by Daniel Branch, 239

"That Place Was Wonderful!" African Tenants on Rhodesdale Estate, Colonial Zimbabwe, c.1900-1952
by Pius S. Nyambara, 267

Managing the Sexuality of Urban Youth: Johannesburg, 1920s-1960s
by Clive Glaser, 301

REVIEW ESSAY
Hunting Griots? Three "German" Studies in Oral Tradition
by Jan Jansen, 329

Volume 38, Number 1, 2005

Imagining Africans: Scholarship, Fantasy, and Science in Colonial Administration, 1920s Southern Rhodesia ,
by Diana Jeater, 1

From Mariage À La Mode to Weddings at Town Hall: Marriage, Colonialism and Mixed-Race Society in Nineteenth-Century Senegal , by Hilary Jones, 27

"Like Adding Water to Milk": Marriage and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Ethiopia,
by Heran Sereke-Brhan, 49

Language and Ethnicity in Matabeleland: Ndebele-Kalanga Relations in Southern Zimbabwe, 1930-1960,
by Enocent Msindo, 79

Volume 37, Number 3, 2004

Government Qadis and Child Marriage in Aden: Ethnography in the Aden Archives,
by Lidwien Kapteijns , 401

Rethinking the History of Settler Agriculture in Nineteenth-Century Liberia,
by Willam E. Allen, 435

Aspects of Elite Women's Activism in the Gold Coast, 1874-1890,
by Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry, 463

Rocking the Boat in South Africa? Voelvry Music and Afrikaans Anti-Apartheld Social Protest in the 1980s,
by Albert Grundlingh, 483

Njanngaan: The Daily Regime of Qur 'anic Students in Twentieth-Century Senegal,
by Rudolph T. Ware III

Volume 37, Number 2, 2004

Crimes of the Dream World: French Trials of Diola Witches in Colonial Senegal,
by Robert M Baum, 201

Before "Baga": Settlement Chronologies of the Coastal Rio Nunez Region, Earliest Times to c. 1000 CE,
by Edda L Fields, 229

Dueling Bands and Good Girls: Gender, Music and Nation in Luanda's Musseques, 1961-1974,
by Marissa J. Moorman, 255

Alternative Schooling for South Africans: Notes on the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College in Tanzania, 1978-1992,
by Brown Bavusile Maaba, 289

A Tool of Empire: the British Medical Establishment in Lagos, 1861- 1905,
by Spencer H Brown, 309

Volume 37, Number 1,  2004

Colonial States and Civic Virtues in Africa: Essays in Honor of
John Lonsdale,
introduction by Luise White, 1

"A Palimpsest of Contradictions”: Ethnicity, Class, and Politics in Africa,
by Bruce J. Berman, 13

Massacre at Ribo Post: Expansion and Expediency on the Colonial
Frontier in East Africa,
by David M. Anderson, 33

Why They Fought: Black Cape Colonists and Imperial Wars, 1899–1918,
by Bill Nasson, 55

“Be Like Firm Soldiers to Develop the Country”: Political Imagination and the Geography of Gikuyuland,
by Derek R. Peterson, 71

Civic Virtue, Young Men, and the Family: Conscription in Rhodesia,
1974–1980,
by Luise White, 103

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