ISSN: 0361-5413 (Print), 1558-2744 (Online)
Editors: Paul Bjerk Texas Tech University, USA, and Andrew N. Wegmann Texas Tech University, USA
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History in Africa is an international, peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes original research and review essays on methodological and historiographical matters pertaining to African history. It has been at the forefront of critical discussion of these topics for more than four decades. It seeks submissions that suggest new methodological approaches, provide insights into source materials, and reflect critically on themes in existing literatures or emerging fields of inquiry.History in Africa is a venue for rigorous analysis of both established and emerging research practices as well as of the resulting scholarly production about the African past.

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On 10 May 1570, at the chateau of Dieppe in Normandy, a cloth-merchant was interrogated about the contents of a basket he was carrying, including thirty notes The post Hidden in a Basket of Cheese first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....

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