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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire

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Internationally refereed, Afriques is an academic journal about African worlds focusing on periods prior to the twentieth century. journals.openedition.org/afriques/ afriques.hypotheses.org/

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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Au-delà, il s’agira d’explorer, avec de nouvelles questions et de nouvelles sources, les relations entre commerce et pouvoirs dans différentes sociétés africaines.
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Voilà un ouvrage qui peut répondre à cette question : chez @cnrseditions.bsky.social 📍Royautés📍 ✍️Fanny Cosandey, Elie Haddad, Pascal Buresi, Stéphane Péquinot, Corinne Lefèvre, Corinne Péneau, Radu Paun, Marie-Laure Derat Collection(s) | Histoire, Broché 480 pages
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This article examines the Portuguese settlement in the Zambezi Valley in Southeast Africa during the early 17th c., a region in which to study the porosity between ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ empires: the Portuguese settlers enjoyed there greater freedom of movement than in many other places.
Map : Approximate localization of the main political and linguistic groups of Southeast Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
📣 New special issue : "Cold Cases? The Archives of Archaeology as Sources of the African Past" under the supervision of Léa Roth (@lea-roth.bsky.social), Gérard Chouin and Chloé Capel 9 exciting articles... to be followed here with more developed posts. journals.openedition.org/afriques/5489
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Drawing on 1ary sources, the study situates Ṭino'life within the earliest encounters of an Oromo individual with the Ethiopian court, the Jesuit missionaries, and the Orthodox Church. Ṭino’s transformation from his Oromo origins to his martyrdom as a Catholic demonstrates his multiple identities.
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The royal court of Ethiopia was attracting talented elites from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. This study reconstructs the story of Ṭino Fäyissa, also known as Täklä Śǝllase, an Oromo intellectual who rose to the ranks of the Ethiopian court, near Lake Ṭana, at the beg. of the 17th c.
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Marie Laure Derat (Orient & Méditerranée) reçoit aujourd'hui la médaille d'argent du CNRS pour son travail d'historienne et d'archéologue sur l'Ethiopie chrétienne médiévale. C'est une grande fierté pour la communauté et une juste récompense pour son travail de longue haleine.
remise de médaille à Marie Laure Derat à l'institut du Monde Arabe
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
It then evolved to become a tool in the fight against the Dutch monopoly that had been established, particularly in the kingdom of Eguafo. Villault de Bellefond would have taken up and enriched this legend, of which he became aware during his visit to the region.
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This article develops another hypothesis: this legend would have been elaborated by Africans living on the Gold Coast in the early 17th c. to attract the French to the region and put an end to the Portuguese monopoly.
Jean-Baptiste d’Anville, « Carte de la Côte de Guinée et du pays », 1729
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Then, the Normans made numerous voyages to West Africa until the beg. of the 15th c. Charles de La Roncière (1925) and Raymond Mauny (1950) consider that Villault de Bellefond wrote in order to support Colbert's colonial project in Africa and labelled his narration a legend.
early historiography on this text
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
In 1669, the Frenchman Nicolas Villault de Bellefond published a travel account entitled "Relation des costes d’Afrique appelées Guinée". It reports in great detail that the Normans passed Cape Bojador as early as 1364, i.e. almost 70 years before the Portugueses.
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
This article proposes a new hypothesis concerning the geographical origin of the builders of the DGB monuments. In line with many migration and origin accounts, the Mowo-Gudur region may have played a special role in the settlement process of highlands.
Sketch of the ruins of DGB-1 (Kuva). Drawing by Christian Seignobos.
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
This comparison reveals a time offset between the traditions of the summits and their analogues in the foothills. It also sheds new light on the settlement process in the interior of the mountain chain.
Map of the area (at the border between Nigerai and Cameroon). Sucession of maps explaining the chronological distribtion of the pottery's decoration
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The DGB (diy-geɗ-biy) sites, perched on the northern heights of the Mandara Mountains, have revealed two pottery traditions that the author compare with those that make up the chrono-cultural sequences of the surrounding foothills and plains.
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
It also explains how the Sultanate of Kilwa attempted to break away from Omani control. #manuscript, #SwahiliCoast, #diplomacy, #slavetrade, #Oman, #Kilwa, #France, #AfricanHistory
French translation of the letter.
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
It sheds crucial light on the nature of relations between Swahili, Omani and French at the beginning of the 19th c. It shows the importance of slave-trading networks for French diplomacy and how they persisted after the official abolition of the slave trade.
The envelop of the letter
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This article includes a reproduction of the letter, its transcription and translation. The historical analysis helps to understand the context (actors, political situation), as well as the strategies of resistance of the Swahili sovereigns in the face of Omani expansionism in East Africa.
The letter of the King of Kilwa, 1819, to the King of France
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
A newly edited and translated letter from mfalme Sulaymān b. Ḥasan to Louis XVIII, written in Arabic in 1819, aimed to seal an alliance between France and the Sultanate of Kilwa against the Omanis settled in Zanzibar, thanks to the good offices of an Arabic-speaking scholar and a slave trader.
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Nous soutenons le mouvement Stand up for Science. Première manifestation mondiale le vendredi 7 mars 2025. Toutes les infos sur le compte @standupforscience.bsky.social et sur le site standupforscience.fr
le mouvement Stand up for Science. Cette mobilisation internationale vise à défendre la liberté académique et à soutenir les cherchers et chercheuses dont le travail est menacé, notamment aux États-Unis, en Argentine et ailleurs.
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
France sought to conduct its commercial activities in the region freely. The 3 treaties signed in 1785, 1802, and 1806 between France and Fuuta-Tooro were similar in nature. Each ultimately failed as both parties sought to protect their own interests.
Last paragraphe of the conclusion.
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
In 1776, Fuuta-Tooro underwent a Theocratic Revolution, rejecting the authority of Saint-Louis in order to uphold one of the revolution’s core principles: combating the slave trade while continuing to collect taxes. Its sovereignty clashed with the pressures of French authority in Saint-Louis.
Map of the region of Senegal during the 18th and 19th c.
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Between the official end of the 1st English occupation of Senegal in 1783 and the 2d English occupation of St. Louis in 1809, France concluded 3 treaties with the Fuuta-Tooro, aiming to revive trade, ensure the security of its merchants, and resolve issues related to customs and taxes.
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The particular geographical location of Ghadames, situated between 2 prominent states—Morocco and the Ottoman Empire—each with their respective caliphal claims, has historically enabled the scholars of the city to formulate and substantiate their own political stances. #Tuaregs #KelTamasheq
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Taking the example of the main group in the Saharan West in the fourteenth century, the Massūfa, whose men wore the liṯām, a veil concealing the face, this article proposes a historical and political reading of their trans-Saharan territory.
Map of the territory of the Massufa, XIVth century
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
In the 14th c., West Africa presented a stable political landscape comprised of large sultanates. However, the Sahara is still seen as an area lacking political organizations, and the nomadic powers are not considered as legitimate authorities over their own territories.
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Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Plurality of the political field, intellectual approaches to legitimacy, identification of social groups constituting themselves as collective actors: the themes explored by the three authors address some of the central issues in the study of politics in Africa before 1900.
Summary of the special issue, with one introduction and three articles
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