International Journal of African Historical Studies Issues and Articles
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- Warlordism in the Congo Basin between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, pp. 1—19
- Agricultural Corvée Labor in Ethiopia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, pp. 21—41
- “Fight to the Death”: Elite Youth and Their Advocates in the King’s College Strike of 1944 in Lagos, Nigeria, pp. 43—64
- “Give Us Free”: The Influences of Steven Spielberg’s Amistad on Legal Scholarship and the African Origins of United States v. Schooner Amistad, pp. 65—82
- “What Think You Now of Africa?”: Daniel Coker’s Unpublished Diary , pp. 83—111
- The Etymology of the Term Ijebu, pp. 113—117
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- Modern Oral Traditions and the History of Kongo, pp. 1—20
- Hidden Seamen from East Africa: Somali Firemen, European Steamers, and Global Labor Markets, 1880s–1930s, pp. 21—43
- African Agricultural Production, Food Trade, and the State in Southern Malawi, 1859–1940, pp. 45—67
- Criminal Justice in Precolonial Tswana Societies, pp. 69—88
- Voices from Exile: The Mpadist Mission des Noirs in Oshwe’s Prison Camps in the Belgian Congo (1940–1960), pp. 89—114
- A Century of Black Nationalism in Malawi: Echoes of Marcus Garvey, 1914–2020, pp. 115—130
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- Female Mobility and the Specter of Prostitution in the British Cameroon Province and Coastal French Cameroon, pp. 161—182
- Reflections on National Disability Programs and Disability Rights in Ghana, pp. 183—205
- Climate Change and Political Instability in Equatorial Eastern Africa, 1876–84, pp. 207—229
- Weapons of Warfare? The History of Firearms among the Acholi of Northern Uganda, 1850s–1920s, pp. 231—258
- Who Determines a Chief? Motsoene Molapo and Succession Disputes in Lesotho, 1867–1940, pp. 259—279
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- Revealing Debate: The 1974 First Seminar of Zairian Linguists and Congo’s Politics of Language in Historical Perspective, pp. 303—324
- “In Kenya Our Labour is Not Settled”: The Issue of Worker Transience in Kenya’s Late Colonial Tea Industry, pp. 325—345
- An Oral History Study of Social Memory and Flood Resilience in Tuti Island, Greater Khartoum, Sudan, pp. 347—372
- Z.K. Matthews and the Liberatory Potential of Education, pp. 373—392
- Dead End Diplomacy: Nyerere, Nkrumah, and Asymmetric Sincerity in the Commonwealth Peace Mission to Vietnam, pp. 393—423
- Research Note. “Infamous Bondage”: Comparing Iberian and Kongolese Legal and Moral Views of Slavery in the Early Modern Catholic Atlantic, pp. 425—432
- Review Essay. A Reckoning for Universal Museums: The Case of the Benin Bronzes, pp. 433—441
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- Investigating Creativity and Improvisation through Archaeological Sources: An Introduction, pp. 1—20
- Creativity, Improvisation, Resilience, and Glassmaking in Early Ile-Ife, pp. 21—52
- Innovation, Tradition, and Metals at Kilwa Kisiwani, pp. 53—75
- Plastic Action Figures: Recent Improvisational Processes and Deep Ancestral Desires in the Gbe Area of Benin, pp. 77—91
- Research Note: A Preliminary Report on the Excavation at Ijebu-Ode Royal Palace Complex (Nigeria), pp. 93—105
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- “That Abominable Practice”: Child Marriage in Two Slaving Ports (Luanda and Benguela), ca. 1797–1846, pp. 129—147
- Social Prestige, Agency, and Criminality: Economic Depression and Currency Counterfeiting in Inter-War British West Africa, pp. 149—173
- “Southern Rhodesia Is Anxious to Give Africans a Cash Crop”? Accounting for the Colony’s 1952 African Turkish Tobacco Policy, pp. 175—191
- The Unity of Black People and the Redemption of Ethiopia: The Ethiopian World Federation and a New Black Nationalism, 1936–1940, pp. 193—215
- San Servility in the Omaheke, Namibia, pp. 217—240
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- Africans and the Socialist World: Aspirations, Experiences, and Trajectories. An Introduction, pp. 269—277
- A Marxist-Leninist Tanzanian Economist: Kassim Guruli, East Germany, and Struggles over Socialism at the University of Dar es Salaam, pp. 279—307
- Nkrumahism, East Germany, and the South-East Ties of Ghanaian Trade Unionist J.A. Osei during the Cold War 1960s, pp. 309—331
- From Decolonization to the Biafran War: Nigerian Students in the Soviet Union, Studies and Politics, 1950s–1970s, pp. 333—354
- The Transnational Trajectories of Moroccan Filmmakers: Film Training between Socialist Poland and Postcolonial France in the 1960s and 1970s, pp. 355—376
- Counterhegemony: Radical Economics and the Appeal of State Socialism in Cold War Era Nigeria (1946–1990), pp. 377—397
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- Early AIDS Research in Rakai: Ugandan Experiences and Expertise in the Creation of the African AIDS Paradigm, pp. 1—26
- From Malaria Eradication to Basic Health Services: Decolonization and Public Health Futures in 1960s Cameroon, pp. 27—45
- The Colonial Situation in Practice: Food at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Lambaréné 1924–65, pp. 47—69
- The Death of Captain Brownrigg and the Decline of Planters’ Rule in Pemba, pp. 71—95
- “We met. We talked. But did they listen?” Black South African Leaders’ Participation in African-White Conferences, 1922–1933, pp. 97—121
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- An Unusual Kind of Town: Cattle Disease, Zoonosis, and Public Health in Colonial Salaga (Northern Ghana), pp. 151—172
- Imperial Policing and the Antinomies of Power in Early Colonial Ghana, pp. 173—193
- U.S. Diplomacy and the American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa: Retreat and Engagement on Pre-Civil War Nigeria, pp. 195—211
- Albert Adu Boahen: An Agent of Change in African Historiography and Ghanaian Politics, pp. 213—237
- James and Rose Aggrey and the Black Atlantic Gestations of African Nationalism, pp. 239—264
- Review Essay: In Mansourah, You Separated Us. (DVD) Directed by Dorothée-Myriam Kellou, pp. 265—267
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- From Caravans to Lorries: Shifting Patterns of Mobility and Colonial Roadmaking in Northern Ghana (1896–1936), pp. 289—314
- Reputations at Stake: Positioning Self and Others in Dakar’s Colonial Court, 1922–1942, pp. 315—333
- A “Juggernaut of Progress”? Irrigation and Statecraft in Late-Colonial Kenya, pp. 335—359
- “Division to Save the Country Is Wisdom”: The Short Life of the Zimbabwe National Party and Its Lasting Impact on Zimbabwe’s Liberation Struggle, 1961–1963, pp. 361—387
- Suffering, Consent, and Coercion in Uganda: The Luwero War, 1981–1986, pp. 389—412
- Review Essay. Julius Nyerere: At the Crossroads of Postcolonial Tanzania’s Reconstructed Socioeconomic and Political Reality, pp. 413—420
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- Introduction: The Bounds of Berlin’s Africa: Space-Making and Multiple Territorialities in East and Central Africa, pp. 1—10
- The Kagera River and the Making of a Contested Boundary: Territorial Legacies and Colonial Demarcations in Buganda (19th–20th Centuries), pp. 11—30
- Navigating Different Worlds: Colonialism in the Mbomu Basin and the Rise and Demise of the Djabir-Clan (1875–1932), pp. 31—58
- Remaking Boundaries of Belonging: Protestant Missionaries and African Christians in Katanga, Belgian Congo, pp. 59—80
- Moving Along, Moving Across, Moving in Time: Linear Geographies, Translocal Practices, and the Making of the “Barotse Boundary,” ca. 1890 to 1925, pp. 81—108
- Bordering the Lake: Transcending Spatial Orders in Kigoma-Ujiji, pp. 109—132
- Punctuated Places: Narrating Space in Burundi, pp. 133—158
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- Historical Writing in Postcolonial Africa: The Institutional Context, pp. 191—346
- Small-Scale Farmers, Foreign Experts, and the Dynamics of Agricultural Change in Sudan, Eritrea, and Djibouti before the Second World War, pp. 217—230
- Federation, Factories, and Foreign Capital: Economic Growth in Southern Rhodesia, 1953–1956, pp. 231—253
- A Handful of Swahili Coast Letters, 1500–1520, pp. 279—304
- Review Article: Defying the Bulldozers: Historic Preservation in North Africa, pp. 283—299
- Research Note: LDS Materials for the Study of Postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa, pp. 301—310
- Review Essay: Presenting the History of Kiziba and Its Kings by F.X. Lwamgira, pp. 311—327
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- Historicizing African Socialisms: Kenyan African Socialism, Zambian Humanism, and Communist China’s Entanglements, pp. 349—374
- “Ban This Cruel Sport Boxing”: Shaping the Ideal Masculine Citizen in Post-WWII Colonial Lagos, Nigeria, pp. 375—398
- James Aggrey and the African Nation: Pan-Africanism, Public Memory, and Political Imagination in Colonial East Africa, pp. 399—424
- Italy’s Ethiopian Mercenaries, the Forgotten Terenebulé, pp. 425—448
- Review Article: Crises and Continuities in Somalia’s Longue Duree, pp. 449—465
- Research Note: East African Slave Trade Exhibit, Christ Church Anglican Cathedral, Zanzibar, Tanzania, pp. 467—472
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- The LDS Church and the Problem of Race: Mormonism in Nigeria, 1946–1978, pp. 1—16
- Financial Blues: The Institutional Adaptation of the Yoruba Credit System, 1851–1900, pp. 17—36
- Decolonization, Race, and Region in Nigeria: Northernization Revisited, pp. 37—62
- Scandal and Mass Politics: Buganda’s 1941 Nnamasole Crisis, pp. 63—83
- Recreating Citizens: Leisure, Mobility, and Urban Status in Late Colonial Kenya, pp. 85—109
- The History and Politics of the Teachers’ League of South Africa’s Transformative Praxis, pp. 111—139
- State Making in Somalia under Siyad Barre: Scrutinizing Historical Amnesia and Normative Bias, pp. 141—162
- Research Note: Early Nineteenth-Century Temperature Recordings at Zanzibar, pp. 163—167
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- A Tale of Two “Returnee” Communities in the Gold Coast and Ghana: Accra’s Tabon and Elmina’s Ex-Soldiers, 1830s to the Present, pp. 197—217
- Facing the Talking Snake: Witchcraft, Anxiety, and Sense-Making in Interwar Belgian Congo, pp. 219—241
- Late Precolonial Struggles, European Expansion, and the Making of Colonial Authority in Northeastern Zimbabwe, ca. 1840–1903, pp. 243—262
- São Tomé and the Biafran War (1967–1970), pp. 263—292
- “It Would Have Pleased the Great Spirit of Mr. Garvey”: Helen and James Piper and the Return to Ethiopia, pp. 293—316
- Beyond the Mali Empire—A New Paradigm for the Sunjata Epic, pp. 317—340
- REVIEW ESSAY: Feeding Globalization: Madagascar and the Provisioning Trade, 1600–1800. By Jane Hooper. Athens: Ohio University Press. 2017. Pp. 338; 6 b/w illustrations, 2 maps. $90 cloth, $34.95 paper., pp. 341—346
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- A Mystery of Baga Culture: The Tshol Initiation Language, pp. 403—434
- The Hide Trade from German East Africa, ca. 1840–1916: Violence, Disease, and Social Change, pp. 373—402
- “Assassin” or “Patriot?” John Harris, Hendrik van den Bergh, John Vorster, and the Johannesburg Station Bomb, 24 July 1964, pp. 435—458
- Citizenship, Strangerhood, and Exclusion: The Fate of Lebanese “Aliens” in British West Africa and Ghana, pp. 459—486
- Research Note: The National Historical Archives in Guinea-Bissau After the Military Intervention of 1998, pp. 487—495
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- Introduction: Localizing the History of Development in Africa, pp. 1—9
- Self-Help Development Projects and Conceptions of Independence in Lesotho, 1950s–1970s, pp. 11—33
- Sweating to Help Themselves: Self-Help and the Contradictions of Citizenship and Development in Decolonizing Kenya, pp. 35—58
- Like Biscuits in Wrappers: Apartheid Development and Decolonization in South West Africa, 1962–1968, pp. 59—78
- Conscientization in South Africa: Paulo Freire and Black Consciousness Community Development in the 1970s, pp. 79—98
- “From a Place of Misery to a Place of Deeper Misery”: Development, Authority, and Conflict in the Mwesi Highlands Rwandan Refugee Settlement, pp. 99—120
- Displaced Agents of Development: Mozambican Refugees and Tanzanian Nation-Building Projects, 1964–1975, pp. 121—145
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- Kwaduenya: Three Hundred Years of Land Tenure in Asante, pp. 189—204
- A View From the Periphery: A Re-Assessment of Asante-Dagbamba Relations in the 18th Century, pp. 205—224
- “The Strange Case of Major Awhaitey”: Conspiracy, Testimonial Evidence, and Narratives of Nation in Ghana’s Postcolonial Democracy, pp. 225—249
- Colonial Construction: Labor Practices and Precedents Along the Uganda Railway, 1893–1903, pp. 251—273
- Gendering Villagization: Women and Kinship Networks in Colonial and Socialist Lindi, Tanzania, pp. 275—299
- “We Abanda Know Chauwa Is Our Mother”: Chewa Ethnicity under Indirect Rule in 1930s Nyasaland, pp. 299—323
- Contraband Coffee: Illegal Economy and Coffee Smuggling in East and Central Africa, ca. 1950–1980, pp. 327—347
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- African Cuba, Comic Opera, a Miracle: The Iterability of Sovereignty in the Cold War Archive, pp. 379—408
- “Provisions” and Power on an Imperial Frontier: A Gendered History of Hunger in 16th Century Central Mozambique, pp. 409—437
- A Case of Pastoral Myopia? The South African Church’s Ambiguous Response to the Erosion of Family Life in the Early Years of the Migrant Labor System, pp. 439—460
- “An Interesting Experiment”: Kibangile and the Quest for Chiefly Legitimacy in Kongolo, Northern Katanga, 1923–1934, pp. 461—477
- Names as Narratives: Constructing Memories through Time in North Western Zimbabwe, ca. 1900–2000, pp. 479—494
- The Marehan Expedition 1913–1914, pp. 495—515
- Greek and Cameroonian Trade Relations and the Origins of Cameroon’s Economic Elites (1920–1980), pp. 517—531
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- Living in “Cold Storage”: An Interior History of Tanzania’s Sleeping Sickness Concentrations, 1933–1946, pp. 1—22
- Integrating African Traditions in Environmental Control in Western Kenya: Contradictions and Failure in Colonial Policy, 1920–1963, pp. 23—52
- Local Perceptions of Political Entities along the Southern Bank of the Zambesi in the 16th and Early 17th Centuries, pp. 53—75
- Changing Dollars into Zaires: The Challenges of a Humanitarian Aid NGO in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1965–1972, pp. 77—101
- Sebilo: 19th Century Hairdos and Ancient Specularite Mining in Southern Africa, pp. 103—131
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- “A Walking Museum of Clinical Syphilis?”: Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in the Eastern Bangwato Reserve, 1930s–1950s, pp. 179—194
- Forced Volunteers: The Complexities of Coercion in Central Mozambique, 1942–1961, pp. 195—212
- Gamekeepers and Counter-Insurgency in Kenya and Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1952–1980, pp. 213—234
- Decolonization, Development, and Nation Building in Ghana-Asia Relations, 1957–1966, pp. 235—253
- Kongo Interpreters, Traveling Priests, and Political Leaders in the Kongo Kingdom (15th–19th Century), pp. 255—276
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- Dinuzulu and the Quest for Zulu Paramountcy, 1898–1906, pp. 305—328
- From Mission to Church: The Formation of the Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa, pp. 329—360
- Schisms in Zimbabwean Anti-Colonial Movements in Botswana, 1959–1979, pp. 361—379
- Untold Youth, Unchronicled Odyssey: A Forest Schoolgirl’s Journey across Post-Revolutionary Guinea, 1984–2013, pp. 381—404
- A Cruel Destiny: The Armenian Stranger in Twentieth-Century Ethiopia, pp. 405—435
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- Violence in the Contemporary Political History of Eastern Africa, pp. 1—12
- “Let the Red Terror Intensify”: Political Violence, Governance and Society in Urban Ethiopia, 1976–78, pp. 13—30
- Power and Its Discontents: Anywaa’s Reactions to the Expansion of the Ethiopian State, 1950–1991, pp. 31—49
- Violence and Political Advocacy in the Lost Counties, Western Uganda, 1930–64, pp. 51—72
- Rebel and Rule in Burundi, 1972, pp. 73—97
- “Peace and Order are in the Interest of Every Citizen”: Elections, Violence and State Legitimacy in Kenya, 1957–74, pp. 99—116
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- Introduction: Exploring Post-Slavery in Contemporary Africa, pp. 181—192
- Awad El Djouh and the Dynamics of Post-Slavery, pp. 193—208
- Female Seclusion in the Aftermath of Slavery on the Southern Swahili Coast: Transformations of Slavery in Unexpected Places, pp. 209—230
- “Freedom But Nothing Else”: The Legacies of Slavery and Abolition in Post-Slavery Sierra Leone, 1928–1956, pp. 231—250
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Haratine in Nouakchott’s “Niche-Settlements”, pp. 251—279
- Stereotypes of Past-Slavery and “Stereo-styles” in Post-Slavery: A Multidimensional, Interactionist Perspective on Contemporary Hierarchies, pp. 281—301
- African Post-Slavery: A History of the Future, pp. 303—324
- The Quest for Honor and Citizenship in Post-Slavery Borgu (Benin), pp. 325—344
- Slavery, Emancipation, and Memory: Exploratory Notes on Western Ethiopia, pp. 345—362
- Escaping Slavery and Building Diasporic Communities in French Soudan and Senegal, ca. 1880–1940, pp. 363—386
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- Introduction. Wealth in Pluralities: Intersections of Money, Gender, and Multiple Values across African Societies, pp. 387—392
- Wealth, Law, and Moral Authority: Marriage and Christian Mobilization in Interwar Cameroon, pp. 393—424
- Emigration and Notions of Wealth: Cosmopolitanism and Its Limits in the Malian Trade Diaspora (Lagos 1960–2010), pp. 425—448
- Wealth Not by Any Other Name: Inland African Material Aesthetics in Expanding Commercial Times, ca. 16th–20th Centuries, pp. 449—469
- “The African Native Has No Pocket”: Monetary Practices and Currency Transitions in Early Colonial Uganda, pp. 471—499
- Research Note: Harry Dean’s Untold Trip to Uganda in 1905, pp. 501—505
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- Asha binti Awadh’s Awqaf: Muslim Endurance Despite Colonial Law in Mikindani, Tanganyika, pp. 1—20
- Local Critiques of Global Development: Patriotism and Power in Late Colonial Buganda, pp. 21—35
- “Cherchez la femme”: African Gendarmes, Quarrelsome Women, and French Commanders in French West Africa, 1945–1960, pp. 37—54
- Teaching and Labor: Teacher Unionism in Ghana, pp. 55—76
- An Unconventional Challenge to Apartheid: The Ivorian Dialogue Diplomacy with South Africa, 1960–1978, pp. 77—99
- African Evangelism and the Colonial Frontier: The Life and Times of Rrafifing Paulo Molefane, pp. 101—120
- The Political Context of the Egyptian Gold Crisis during the Reign of Saladin, pp. 121—138
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- “Free Fight on the Grand Parade”: Resistance to the Greyshirts in 1930s South Africa, pp. 185—208
- Diplomatic Lepers: The Katangan and Rhodesian Foreign Missions in the United States and the Politics of Nonrecognition, pp. 209—237
- Clothing and Community: Children’s Agency in Senegal’s School for Sons of Chiefs and Interpreters, 1892–1910, pp. 239—258
- They Never Finished Their Journey: The Territorial Limits of Fang Ethnicity in Equatorial Guinea, 1930–1963, pp. 259—285
- Verandah Boys versus Reactionary Lawyers: Nationalist Activism in Ghana, 1946–1956, pp. 287—318
- Making Sense of Fifty Years of U.S. Peace Corps Service in Cameroon, pp. 319—338
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- Introduction: Incorporating Medical Research into the History of Medicine in East Africa, pp. 379—398
- Ziba Politics and the German Sleeping Sickness Camp at Kigarama, Tanzania, 1907–14, pp. 399—423
- Research Material and Necromancy: Imagining the Political-Economy of Biomedicine in Colonial Tanganyika, pp. 425—443
- “The Malaria Imbroglio”: Ethics, Eradication, and Endings in Pare Taveta, East Africa, 1959–1960, pp. 445—471
- Blood Work and “Rumors” of Blood: Nutritional Research and Insurrection in Buganda, 1935–1970, pp. 473—494
- Conclusion: Experimentation in Colonial East Africa and Beyond, pp. 495—505
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- Royal Concubinage in Ngaoundere, Northern Cameroon, ca. 1900–1960, pp. 1—25
- Nationalism by Telegrams: Political Writings and Anti-Colonial Resistance in Sudan, 1920–1924, pp. 27—59
- Changing Policies and Their Influence on Government Health Workers in Tanzania, 1967–2009: Perspectives from Rural Mbulu District, pp. 61—103
- The Atlantic Slave Trade from Angola: A Port-by-Port Estimate of Slaves Embarked, 1701–1867, pp. 105—120
- Affect and Society in Precolonial Africa, pp. 123—150
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- Kwame Nkrumah, African Studies, and the Politics of Knowledge Production in the Black Star of Africa, pp. 181—203
- Islam and Decolonization in Africa: The Political Engagement of a West African Muslim Community, pp. 205—227
- The Idoma Hope Rising Union and the Politics of Patriarchy and Ethnic Honor, pp. 229—254
- The Allocation of Land as a Historical Discourse of Political Authority in Tanzania, pp. 255—282
- The Political Lives of Rhodesian Detainees during Zimbabwe’s Liberation Struggle, pp. 283—304
- Phrasebooks and the Shaping of Conduct in Colonial Africa, ca. 1884–1914 , pp. 305—328
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- Engendering Humanism in French West Africa: Patriarchy and the Paradox of Empire, pp. 353—372
- “One Man, No Chop”: Licit Wealth, Good Citizens, and the Criminalization of Drivers in Postcolonial Ghana, pp. 373—396
- The First Line Against Second Class Citizenship: The Eritrean Muslim League, Islamic Institutional Autonomy, and Representation on the Eve of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Federation, 1950–52, pp. 397—422
- The Trial of Samuel Samo and the Trading Syndicates of the Rio Pongo, 1797 to 1812, pp. 423—441
- Review Essay: Business as Usual? Politics, Hegemony, and Elite Maneuverings in Zimbabwe since the Signing of the Global Political Agreement, pp. 443—450
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- Introduction: Toward a History of Violence in Colonial Kenya, pp. 1—7
- Repatriation in Colonial Kenya: African Institutions and Gendered Violence, pp. 9—28
- Spare the Rod, Spoil the Colony: Corporal Punishment, colonial violence, and Generational authority in Kenya, 1897-1952, pp. 29—56
- Settlers, Africans, and Inter-Personal Violence in Kenya, ca. 1900-1920s, pp. 57—80
- Murder and Mercy: Capital Punishment in Colonial Kenya: ca. 1909-1956, pp. 81—101
- Research Note: An Ethiopian Magical Manuscript at the University Library of Cluj, Romania (BC, MS 681), pp. 103—111
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- Harnessing the Zambezi: How Mozambique's Planned Mphanda Nkuwa Dam Perpetuates the Colonial Past, pp. 157—190
- Prophecy, Possession, and Politics: Negotiating the Supernatural in 20th Century Machakos, Kenya, pp. 191—216
- The Calendrical Factor in Akan History, pp. 217—246
- Hermits, Saints, and Snakes: The Archaeology of the Early Ethiopian Monastery in Wider Context, pp. 247—271
- Review Essay: Revisiting Abba Bahrey's "The News of the Galla", pp. 273—294
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- Forced Villagization during the Shifta Conflict in Kenya, ca. 1963–1968 , pp. 343—364
- “The History and Affairs of TANU”: Intellectual History, Nationalism, and the Postcolonial State in Tanzania, pp. 365—383
- Intellectual Discourse in the Sokoto Caliphate: The Triumvirate’s Opinions on the Issue of Ransoming, ca. 1810, pp. 385—401
- The Changing Functions of Traditional Dance in Zulu Society: 1830–Present, pp. 403—425
- “They Promised that the Game Fences Would Be Torn Down”: Nationalist Politics and Contested Control of Natural Resources in Southeastern Zimbabwe, 1960s–1970s, pp. 427—448
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- West Africa’s Discovery of the Atlantic, pp. 1—25
- The Fante Shrine of Nananom Mpow and the Atlantic Slave Trade in Southern Ghana, pp. 27—44
- The Benin Royalist Movement and Its Political Opponents: Controversy over Restoration of the Monarchy, 1897–1914, pp. 45—59
- Bellah Histories of Decolonization, Iklan Paths to Freedom: The Meanings of Race and Slavery in the Late-Colonial Niger Bend (Mali), 1944–1960, pp. 61—87
- Death, Christianity, and African Miners: Contesting Indirect Rule in the Zambian Copperbelt, 1935–1962, pp. 89—112
- Contextualizing Privatization and Conservation in the History of Resource Management in Southwestern Uganda: Ethnicity, Political Privilege, and Resource Access over Time, pp. 113—140
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- Millet is Gone! Considering the Demise of Eleusine Agriculture on Kilimanjaro, pp. 191—214
- Postcolonial Realism: Tanganyika’s Foreign Policy Under Nyerere, 1960–1963, pp. 215—247
- Indirect Rule and Colonial Intervention: Chiefs and Agrarian Change in Nyasaland, ca. 1933 to the Early 1950s, pp. 249—274
- The Uncontrollable Force: A Brief History of the Liberian Frontier Force, 1908–1944, pp. 275—297
- Mesdames Tirailleurs and Indirect Clients: West African Women and the French Colonial Army, 1908–1918, pp. 299—322
- Terence Ranger in Fact and Fiction, pp. 325—331
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- Early Limits of Local Decolonization in São Tomé and Príncipe: From Colonial Abuses to Postcolonial Disappointment, 1945– 1976, pp. 373—392
- Empire Builders and Mushroom Gentlemen: The Meaning of Money in Colonial Nigeria, pp. 393—413
- Labor’s Gendered Misstep: The Women’s Committee and African Women Workers, 1957–1968, pp. 415—442
- Guinea-Bissau: How a Successful Social Revolution Can Become an Obstacle to Subsequent State-Building, pp. 443—455
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- “Transborder” Exchanges of People, Things, and Representations: Revisiting the Conflict Between Mahdist Sudan and Christian Ethiopia, 1885–1889, pp. 1—26
- (Re)Negotiating Marginality: The Maji Maji War and Its Aftermath in Southwestern Tanzania, ca. 1905–1916, pp. 27—62
- The Kamba and Mau Mau: Ethnicity, Development, and Chiefship, 1952–1960, pp. 63—87
- Reading, Writing, and Respectability: How Schoolgirls Developed Modern Literacies in Colonial Zanzibar, pp. 89—114
- Nigeria’s Nationalization of British Petroleum, pp. 115—136
- “Accra Is Changing, Isn’t It?”: Urban Infrastructure, Independence, and Nation in the Gold Coast’s Daily Graphic, 1954–57, pp. 137—159
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- “White Coronations and Magical Boycotts”: Omyènè Political Strategies, Clan Leaders, and French Rule in Coastal Gabon, 1870–1920, pp. 207—226
- Chiefs, Traitors, and Representatives: The Construction of a Political Repertoire in Independence-Era Cameroun, pp. 227—253
- Reinventing the Wheel? Local Government and Neo-Traditional Authority in Late-Colonial Northern Sudan, pp. 255—278
- “No Better than a Slave or Outcast”: Skill, Identity, and Power among the Porters of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1887–1890, pp. 279—318
- The BaKhurutshe Anglicans of Tonota and Religious Persecution in the Bechuanaland Protectorate, pp. 319—340
- The Development of Early Settler Identity in Southern Rhodesia: 1890–1914, pp. 341—367
- Review Essay: Jews and Judaism in African History. By Richard Hull, pp. 369—371
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- Remembering and Reworking the Swahili Diwanate: The Role of Objects and Places at Vumba Kuu, pp. 407—427
- The Khalıfa and the Routinization of Charismatic Authority, pp. 429—442
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