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The Ancient Empires of Africa: Imperial Governments and “Native” Rulers. Ancient state structures in Africa included Empires, which carried with them all the complexity,...
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The Ancient Empires of Africa: Imperial Governments and “Native” Rulers.

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Ancient state structures in Africa included Empires, which carried with them all the complexity, inequalities, and political baggage inherent in such systems.
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The White Masks of Gabon: “Foreign” symbolism in Traditional African sculpture. Among the most refined works of African art are the distinctive white masks of southern Gabon in...
2nd Aug 2026
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The White Masks of Gabon: “Foreign” symbolism in Traditional African sculpture.

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2nd Aug 2026
Among the most refined works of African art are the distinctive white masks of southern Gabon in Central Africa.
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A History of Agadez: The Desert city of Aïr (1400-1900) Journal of African Cities: chapter 21
5th Jul 2026
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A History of Agadez: The Desert city of Aïr (1400-1900)

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5th Jul 2026
Journal of African Cities: chapter 21
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Rethinking the “Technology Gap” in African History: Guns, Plows, and Furnaces. Popular literature on the history of technology maintains that the limited adoption of more complex...
7th Jun 2026
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Rethinking the “Technology Gap” in African History: Guns, Plows, and Furnaces.

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7th Jun 2026
Popular literature on the history of technology maintains that the limited adoption of more complex technologies in pre-colonial Africa placed the continent at a disadvantage in its interactions with the wider world.
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African Revolutions and External Influences during the Long Nineteenth Century In the opening decades of the 19th century, Africa witnessed the emergence of new economic and...
3rd May 2026
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African Revolutions and External Influences during the Long Nineteenth Century

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3rd May 2026
In the opening decades of the 19th century, Africa witnessed the emergence of new economic and political dynamics that intersected with, and were in some areas the outcome of, external influences.
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The first Africanists: Intellectual Collaboration and the Origins of African Studies in the late... The first Africanists (specialists who study African languages, societies, and history) were not...
5th Apr 2026
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The first Africanists: Intellectual Collaboration and the Origins of African Studies in the late 19th to early 20th century.

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5th Apr 2026
The first Africanists (specialists who study African languages, societies, and history) were not colonial researchers, as is often assumed, but African intellectuals who were actively engaged in the production of knowledge about their own societies.
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The myth of the Hamitic race in religious and pseudo-scientific literature: an African perspective In 1845, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed that American slaveholders appealed to the...
1st Mar 2026
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The myth of the Hamitic race in religious and pseudo-scientific literature: an African perspective

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1st Mar 2026
In 1845, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed that American slaveholders appealed to the biblical claim that ‘God cursed Ham’ as a theological justification for slavery, an argument he rejected as fundamentally unscriptural.
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Forgotten Cities of the Swahili coast: A history of Pemba in the Medieval Indian Ocean World (ca.... Journal of African Cities: chapter 19
1st Feb 2026
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Forgotten Cities of the Swahili coast: A history of Pemba in the Medieval Indian Ocean World (ca. 600-1822 CE)

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1st Feb 2026
Journal of African Cities: chapter 19
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The Intellectual Foundations of African Proto-Nationalism and the “invention” of Nations in the 19th... “What led to this production was not a burning desire of the author to appear in print, but a purely...
4th Jan 2026
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The Intellectual Foundations of African Proto-Nationalism and the “invention” of Nations in the 19th Century

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4th Jan 2026
“What led to this production was not a burning desire of the author to appear in print, but a purely patriotic motive, that the history of our fatherland might not be lost in oblivion.”
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions. At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was...
7th Dec 2025
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions.

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7th Dec 2025
At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was produced by Umaru al-Kanawi, a Hausa scholar born in Kano (Nigeria), who, after a brief stay in Salaga (Ghana), settled in Kete-Krachi (*Ghana) in 1896 and composed his...
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