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- “What Think You Now of Africa?”: Daniel Coker’s Unpublished Diary , pp. 83—111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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- Africa’s Promise: Chief M.K.O. Abiola and Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism, 1990–1993, pp. 141—157
- Mozambique’s “Teachers of the Negative”: The Confessions of FRELIMO Dissidents at the Nachingwea Camp, March–May 1975, pp. 159—190
- Disease Control, Colonial State-Building, and the Making of African Sanitary Inspectors in Lagos, ca. 1900—1930, pp. 191—213
- Tanganyika’s Unhealthy Wilderness: The Visibility of Colonial Space, pp. 215—241
- Research Note—The Creation of a Pan-Nigerian Typeface: A Postcolonial Episode in the Evolution of Nigerian Languages, pp. 243—250
- Research Note—Instability Entrepreneurs: Analyzing Image Management and Aid Disbursement in Museveni’s Uganda, pp. 251—256
- Review Essay—Navigating Socialist Encounters: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War (Africa in Global History, Volume 2). Edited by Eric Burton, Anne Dietrich, Immanuel R. Harisch, and Marcia C. Schenck., pp. 257—262
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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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- 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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- Indigenous Banks in Colonial Nigeria, pp. 467—487
- Idi Amin’s Dirty War: Subversion, Sabotage, and the Battle to Keep Uganda Clean, 1971–1979, pp. 489—513
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- The Organization of the Atlantic Slave Trade in Yorubaland, ca. 1777 to ca. 1856, pp. 77—100
- Samuel Hodges Jr., and Symbiosis of Slave and "Legitimate" Trades, 1810s-1820s, pp. 101—116
- Elders, Yound Men, and David Livingstone's "Civilizing Missions": Revisiting the Disintegreation of the Kololo Kingdom, 1851-1864, pp. 55—80
- Food Matters: the Pace of Development in Building the Postwar Ethiopian State, 1941-1974, pp. 29—54
- World Bank Survey Missions and the Politics of Decolonization in British East Africa, 1957-1963, pp. 1—28
- Igbo Women and Political Participation in Nigeria, 1800s-2005, pp. 81—103
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- Endowing Property and Edifying Power in a Red Sea Port: Waqf, Arab Migrant Entreprenuers, and Urban Authority in Madssawa, 1860s-1880s, pp. 151—178
- The Man Who Would Be Caliph: A Sixteenth Century Sultan's Bid for an African Empire, pp. 179—200
- "Kill Me Quick": A History of Nubian Gin in Kibera, pp. 201—220
- "Black Man, You Are On Your Own!": Making Race Conciousness in South African Thought, 1968-1972, pp. 221—240
- The Archaeology of African History, pp. 241—255
- The Enigma of Raymond Dart, pp. 257—282
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- Introduction: Current Trends in the Archaeology of African History, pp. 347—350
- Material Life and Domestic Economy in a Frontier of the Oyo Empire During the Mid-Atlantic, pp. 351—385
- Hueda (Whydah) Country and Town: Archaeological Perspectives on the Rise and Collapse of an African Atlantic Kingdom, pp. 387—410
- Every Periphery Is Its Own Center: Sociopolitical and Economic Interactions in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Ghana, pp. 411—432
- The Urban History of a Rural Place: Swahili Archaeology on Pemba Island, Tanzania, 700-1500 AD, pp. 433—455
- Environmental Narratives and the History of Soil Erosion in Kondoa District: An Archaeological Perspective, pp. 457—483
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- African Collaborators and Their Quest for Power in Colonial Kenya:Senior Chief Waruhiu wa Kung'u's Rise from Obscurity to Prominence, 1890-1922, pp. 295—314
- "The Remedy for Hunger is bending the Back ": Maize and British Agricultural Policy in Southwestern tanzania 1920-1960, pp. 223—261
- Oil, Politics, and Development in the Formation of the State: The Congolese Petroleum Wars, 1963-1968, pp. 169—202
- Autochthony and Ethnic Cleansing in the Post-Colony: The 1966 Tombel Disturbances in Cameroon, pp. 203—222
- The Northey Forced Labor Crisis, 1920-1921 A Symptomatic Reading, pp. 263—293
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- Changes in Political Economy and Ecology in West-Usambara, Tanzania: ca. 1850-1950, pp. 383—409
- Introduction: Historical and Regional Perspectives on Landscape Transformations in Notheastern Tanzania, 1850-2000, pp. 369—382
- Northeast Tanzania's Disappearing Rangelands: Historical Perspectives on Recent Land Use Change, pp. 523—556
- Preserving the New Tanzania: Conservation and Land Use Change, pp. 557—579
- Mastering the Landscape? Sisal Plantations, Land, and Labor in Tanga Region, 1893-1980s, pp. 411—432
- Regional Political Ecology and Intensive Cultivation in Pre-Colonial and Colonial South Pare, Tanzania, pp. 433—459
- The Expansion of Traditional Irrigation in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, pp. 461—490
- Tanzanian Ritual Perimetrics and African Landscapes: The Caseof Dracaena, pp. 491—521
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- "A Real War": Popular Participation in Development in Tanzania During the 1950s & 1960s, pp. 71—95
- The Haven of Peace Purged: Tackling the Undesirable and Unproductive Poor in Dar es Salaam, ca. 1950s-1980s, pp. 119—151
- Introduction: The Emperor's New Clothes? Continuities in Governance in Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial East Africa, pp. 1—25
- Creating Continuity: Liberal Governance and Dissidence in Njombe, Tanzania, 1960-61, pp. 27—50
- Useful Instruments of Participation? Local Government and Cooperatives in Tanzania, 1940s to 1970s, pp. 97—118
- The Lanet Incidence, 2-25 January 1964: Military Unrest and National Amnesia in Kenya, pp. 51—70
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- Urbanizing Mystical Islam: Making Murid Space in the Cities of Senegal, pp. 197—223
- "Oziosi, vagabondi e pregiudicati": Labor, Law, and Crime in Colonial Asmara, 1890-1941, pp. 225—250
- Black But Not African: Francophone Black Diaspora and the Revue Des Colonies, 1834-1842, pp. 251—282
- The Master Narrative of South Africa's Liberation Struggle: Remembering and Forgetting June 16, 1976, pp. 283—302
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- Islamic Legal Culture and Slave Ownership Contests in Nineteenth-Century Sahara, pp. 391—439
- Curing the Cancer of the Colony: Bagamoyo, Dar es Salaam, and Socioeconomic Struggle in German East Africa, pp. 441—469
- The Role of Cape Verdeans in War Mobilization and War Prevention in Portugal's African Empire, 1955-1965, pp. 497—511
- The Origins, Context, and Political Significance of the Mushala Rebeliion Against the Zambian One-Party State, pp. 471—496