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Sam Severson
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Dad. Historian. Managing editor of @thejah.bsky.social.
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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · 4h
Read the new OA History Matters piece by Cresa Pugh on legacies of the #BeninBronzes and #Restitution within the #BlackAtlantic

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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · 4h
Read the new OA article by David Damtar on #Gender and #Mining in colonial #Ghana

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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · 21d
Read the new review by Joshua Grace of Tasha Rijke-Epstein’s “Children of the Soil” (@dukepress.bsky.social). #Madagascar #Architecture #UrbanHistory

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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · Sep 1
In the latest OA #HistoryMatters piece, JAH #WestAfrica editor Moses Ochonu writes about the rise and implications of what he terms the new instrumental turn in historical scholarship in #Nigeria:

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Niels Boender @nielsboender.bsky.social · Sep 1
Very happy to see my latest article published with
@thejah.bsky.social - the second in what will be a trilogy of articles on the legacy of Mau Mau and local politics in Central Kenya. In this article, I take a look at the African Independent Pentecostal Church, the religious arm...
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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · Sep 1
Read the new OA article by @nielsboender.bsky.social‬ on the African Independent Pentecostal Church, #decolonization, #land, and #reconciliation in #Kenya:

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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · Sep 1
Read the new OA article by @nielsboender.bsky.social‬ on the African Independent Pentecostal Church, #decolonization, #land, and #reconciliation in #Kenya:

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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · Aug 27
Read the new OA article by @caitlinbarker.bsky.social on the #diplomacy carried out by #women from #Cameroon in #China during the era of #decolonization:

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John Aerni-Flessner @lesothojohn.bsky.social · Aug 12
Just received the cover for my latest book! Coming in February 2026 to a bookstore near you in Southern Africa (available in North America and Europe, too), but published in RSA. Exciting stuff!
A book jacket with a picture of mountains and a reservoir. The title reads: White Gold and Thirsty Communities: The Cold War, Apartheid, and the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.
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Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social · Aug 24
Paul Clarke is doing incredible work on the global history of policing and abolition. Here he makes several key interventions in the historiography of race and the frontier in South Africa.

A must read! 📚
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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · Aug 21
Read Paul T. Clarke’s new OA article on #policing, #war, #mercantilism, and the #frontier in Dutch #SouthAfrica:

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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · Aug 21
Read Paul T. Clarke’s new OA article on #policing, #war, #mercantilism, and the #frontier in Dutch #SouthAfrica:

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Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · Aug 5
AI will never locate a new archive. It will never uncover a new source. It will never find a small, privately held collection of papers that can upend what we think we know about the past. It can never work with undigitized sources. It can never do real oral history or ethnography.
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Joanna Kenty @jokenty.bsky.social · Aug 5
AI can only replace historians in the sense that it can spit out mediocre, plagiarized narrative that vaguely resembles history. It will never replace *good* historians. Unfortunately, many university presidents and CEOs don’t seem to care about the quality of work being done, only the quantity- 1/2
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · Aug 4
Just a reminder this list is drawn from a piece written by four researchers for MICROSOFT (data scientists, CS people, economists) who have never stepped foot in an archive/never taken an oral history/studied material culture, by their CVs.
Unlike them, I do my research, and don't talk out my ass.
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Sam Severson @sseverson.bsky.social · Jul 25
Check out the latest episode of the JAH podcast, featuring Ayo Adegbite in conversation with @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social about studying the history of fisheries management on #LakeMalawi. Find it on Apple, Spotify, and streaming here: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-vyr4h...

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David Wilson on fisheries management in Lake Malawi
In this episode, David Wilson (University of Strathclyde) joins guest host Ayodeji Adegbite (Brown University) to discuss the Open Access article, "Colonialism, Governance, and Fisheries: Perspectives...
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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · Jul 22
Check out the special issue of the International Journal of #CulturalProperty on "The #AfricanRenaissance and International Cultural Heritage #Law":

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Latest issue | International Journal of Cultural Property | Cambridge Core
International Journal of Cultural Property
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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · Jul 10
In our latest #OA #HistoryMatters piece, the team of Milo Gough, Bryson Nkhoma, Elias Chirwa, @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social‬, Charles Knapp, Tracy Morse, and Wapulumuka Mulwafu explore the history of present day #Fisheries management in #LakeMalawi:

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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · Jul 10
Read the #OA article by @araujohistorian.bsky.social on #FreeTrade, #Violence, and #Sovereignty in #WestCentralAfrica during the era of the #Transatlantic #SlaveTrade: bit.ly/3GiTDGt
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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · Jul 10
Read Peter Brooke’s latest article on #Radio, #Gender, and #Development in #Ghana and #Zambia:

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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · Jul 10
Read the new #OA article by @giotonolo.bsky.social on the production and repression of palm alcohol in #Benin:

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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · Jul 10
In our latest #OA Featured Review, Khwezi Mkhize explores “Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala” (@ohiounivpress.bsky.social) by Joel Cabrita:

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#SouthAfrica #biography #arts #apartheid
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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · Jul 10
Interested in recent scholarship on #Mali? Check out this #OA piece by @thiamm.bsky.social, reviewing books by Richard Roberts and the late Moussa Sow: bit.ly/430cvRx
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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · Nov 19
The editors support @sevead.bsky.social, whose work is being unfairly instrumentalized for political ends: tinyurl.com/26dyp6sv

She is a historian not a state agent. Her pathbreaking scholarship underwent rigorous peer-review to be published in this very journal. #OA link:
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Au Sénégal, l'histoire de la Casamance sous la chape de la bataille électorale
À l’approche des élections législatives du 17 novembre, le livre d’une historienne française, Séverine Awenengo Dalberto, consacré à la Casamance, a enflammé le débat public. Avant même qu’il soit (…)
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John Aerni-Flessner @lesothojohn.bsky.social · Nov 18
Interesting in hearing about the history of a failed #ski resort project in the #apartheid-era Bantustan of #QwaQwa and the border dispute with #Lesotho that scuttled it?

The @thejah.bsky.social was kind enough to interview me for their podcast:

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The Journal of African History Podcast highlights interviews with historians whose work has appeared in The Journal of African History, a leading source of peer-reviewed scholarship on Africa’s past s...
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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · May 2
In our July issue, Gregory Mann explores #democracy and #military government. #KhakiRule #WestAfrica #Sahel #coups #governance
 
Read it #OA today: bit.ly/3WkkRlz
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Sam Severson @sseverson.bsky.social · Apr 27
Really proud of this piece the editors put together for #FreedomDay2024. Happy 30th birthday South African democracy!
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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · Apr 27
Happy #FreedomDay2024 #SouthAfrica!

Read reflections on the #history and #historiography of #SouthAfrica 30 years after the end of #apartheid. #FreedomDay #Democracy

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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · Mar 1
Read the new piece by @anjuliwebster.bsky.social in #HistoryMatters on #FirstView: bit.ly/3T1QTPQ  #water #rivers #SouthernAfrica
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