Africa

  • Grant of the Week: MESA Global Academy Fellowships

    Perspectives Daily

    Lizzy Meggyesy | Apr 7, 2023

    The MESA Global Academy offers competitive fellowships to Middle East Studies scholars in the humanities and social sciences from the Middle...
  • Robert L. Tignor (1932–2022)

    In Memoriam

    Heather J. Sharkey | Feb 28, 2023

    A pathbreaking historian of modern Africa, the Middle East, and the world, and beloved mentor to generations of students, Robert...
  • Trading on Justice

    AHA Activities

    Mark Philip Bradley | Feb 22, 2023

    The latest AHR issue includes slavery and reparations, histories of the 19th century, and new approaches to transnational history.
  • Africa's Deep History Goes to Philadelphia

    Annual Meeting, Perspectives Daily

    Akin Ogundiran | Dec 1, 2022

    Do you want to update your syllabus on early African history? Are you interested in learning about new findings in Africa’s cultural history? Do you w...

Most Recent

  • Art as Historical Method

    Mark Philip Bradley | Oct 11, 2022

    Identity, colonial legacies, and recovering knowledge are all showcased in the latest issue of the AHR.
  • Louis E. Wilson (1939–2022)

    Daniel Horowitz | Sep 30, 2022

    Louis E. Wilson, historian of Africa and African Americans, died on July 10, 2022. 
  • Is History History?

    James H. Sweet | Aug 17, 2022

    When historians concede to discuss the past with the terms of the present, they abandon the skill set that makes them historians.
  • AHA Member Spotlight: Norman Etherington

    Matthew Keough | Jun 22, 2022

    Norman Etherington is an emeritus professor at the University of Western Australia. He lives in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, and...
  • Empires, Families, and Engaged History

    Mark Philip Bradley | Apr 28, 2022

    Questions of empire, race, family, and knowledge production weave throughout the articles in the latest AHR issue.
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