The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa by Professor Toby Green, Professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture in the…

This event marks the publication of Caitjan Gainty’s Healthy Scepticism, a vital new account of medical distrust for our contentious times.

Creating community through reading and writing histories of slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Africa, past and present.

L’ouvrage de référence « Réparations » d’Ana Lucia Araujo retrace l’histoire des demandes d’indemnités matérielles et financières du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours. Un éclairage précieux à l’aune du discours d’Emmanuel Macron, à l’occasion des 25 ans de la loi Taubira jeudi 21 mai, annoncé « sans tabou » sur le sujet.

The History in Africa editorial team is seeking submissions for volume 54.The Archive in an age of Epistemic AnxietyCall for Papers – History in Africa, Vol. 54 (2027)  Building on our previous theme of the methods of diaspora and transoceanic mobility, the African Studies Association journal History in Africa invites scholars to rethink and reimagine the foundational methods and conceptualizations of archives and archival…