IJAHS
The International Journal of African Historical Studies (IJAHS) is devoted to the study of the African past. The journal publishes three issues each year (April/May, August/September, and December). Articles, review essays, notes, and documents submitted to the journal should be based on original research and framed in terms of historical analysis. Contributions in archaeology, history, anthropology, historical ecology, political science, political ecology, and economic history are welcome. Articles that highlight European administrators, settlers, or colonial policies should be submitted elsewhere, unless they deal substantially with interactions with (or the affects on) African societies.
Meet the IJAHS Team
You can browse, subscribe to or purchase hard copies of the International Journal of African Historical Studies here.
Questions about orders, IJAHS subscriptions, and advertising should be directed to the business manager, Sandi McCann (ascpub@bu.edu) (617/353-7306)
About the Journal
The
International Journal of African Historical Studies (IJAHS) is a peer reviewed journal devoted to the study of African’s past. Norman Bennett was the founder and guiding force behind the journal’s growth from its first incarnation at Boston University as
African Historical Studies in 1968. The title was expanded to the
International Journal of African Historical Studies in 1972. Jean Hay served as the journal’s production editor from 1979 to 1999 and editor from 1999 to 2005. Michael DiBlasi is the current editor and Lilly Havstad is the assistant editor. Members of the editorial board include: Emmanuel Akyeampong, Peter Alegi, Misty Bastian, Sara Berry, Barbara Cooper, Marc Epprecht, Lidwien Kapteijns, Meredith McKittrick, Pashington Obang, Jeanne Marie Penvenne, David Schoenbrun, Heather Sharkey, Ann B. Stahl, John Thornton, and Rudolph Ware III.
The journal publishes three issues each year (April/May, August/September, and December). Manuscripts submitted to the journal must be based on original research and framed in terms of historical analysis. Contributions in archaeology, history, anthropology, historical ecology, political science, political ecology, and economic history are welcome. Articles that highlight European administrators, settlers, or colonial policies should be submitted elsewhere, unless they deal substantially with interactions with (or the affects on) African societies.
Subscribe to the Journal
To purchase a print subscription print, fill out, and return the Print Edition Subscription form and mail it with remittance in U. S. funds to:
IJAHS
African Studies Center, Boston University
232 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
USA
For inquiries please call 617-353-7306 or email at ascpub@bu.edu.
Submit an Article
We welcome article submissions in English on all aspects of African history that focus on the history of African communities through time, in Africa or elsewhere. Articles that highlight European administrators or colonial policies are best placed elsewhere, unless they deal substantially with the interactions of these administrators with (or the affect of these policies on) African societies. All manuscripts submitted for consideration will be evaluated by outside readers.
We do not require that submitted articles conform to our style sheet for the purposes of evaluation. Should an article be accepted for publication in IJAHS, however, it will be the author’s responsibility at that point to make whatever revisions are necessary to conform to the IJAHS style sheet.
Articles may be submitted to the Editor as Word documents. Hard copies are not required.
We recommend an initial query to the editor (mdib@bu.edu) about whether a paper on a particular subject, based on evidence from certain kinds of sources, would be suitable for IJAHS. This might well save you time and effort if your article does not fit the journal’s focus. Articles submitted to the journal should not be, or have been, submitted elsewhere. Submissions judged to be suitable for further consideration will be sent out for anonymous peer review.
All materials and editorial correspondence pertaining to submission procedures and publishing policies should be directed to the editor (Michael DiBlasi, mdib@bu.edu) or mailed to:
The Editor
International Journal of African Historical Studies
African Studies Center
Boston University
232 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215 USA
Review a Book
If you would like to be on our list of potential book reviewers, please complete the
reviewer form and send it to the editor. Providing details about your own background and the specific topics and areas of interest to you will help the editor select appropriate books for you.
Please keep in mind that our primary focus (and the core of our audience) centers around history, although we review books from a number of disciplines. Whatever the focus of your particular review, please mention specifically the aspects that will be of special interest to historians of Africa.
When books are sent out for review, the editor assigns an approximate length and a due date. If you feel the book deserves consideration at greater length, please discuss this with the editor before expanding your review. If you need more time, please report this to the editor and propose a more feasible deadline.
Book Review Style Sheet
- Send your book review by e-mail as an attachment.
- At the top of the first page, please indicate the title of the book under review in the following form:
THE PEOPLE OF SALE. By Kenneth L. Brown. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976. Pp. xiv, 265; map, 15 b/w illustrations. $18.00 cloth, $4.95 paper.
- For an edited collection:
ISLAM AND COLONIAL RULE IN FRANCOPHONE AFRICA, 1905-1965. Edited by Ross Dunn and Ghislaine Lydon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 356. $75.00.
- In referring to individual chapters in an edited collection, please be sure to cite the author’s full name in the first instance.
- Try to keep footnotes to a minimum, but when you refer to another scholarly work in the text of the review, please include a full footnote citation: for a book: Author’s name, Book title: and subtitle (city, year). For an article: Author’s name, “Title of Article,” Journal Title 3, 2 (year), 156-58.
- Quotes from the book under review should be shown in parentheses in the text (p. 25).
- We prefer book reviews that are about 2-3 double-spaced pages (roughly 500—750 words) in length. If you feel the book you are reviewing deserves fuller treatment, please get in touch with the editor to propose a revised length.
- The reviewer’s name (in caps) and institutional affiliation or city should appear at the end of the review, on separate lines. Please do not include the department or program.
Reviewer Form
May We Add Your Name to our File of Book Reviewers?
Would you like to review the new and important books of your field? Would you like to help us evaluate manuscripts in your field that have been submitted for publication? If you are interested in any of these opportunities, please complete the form below.
The International Journal of African Historical Studies (IJAHS) is devoted to the study of the African past. The journal publishes three issues each year (April/May, August/September, and December). Articles, review essays, notes, and documents submitted to the journal should be based on original research and framed in terms of historical analysis. Contributions in archaeology, history, anthropology, historical ecology, political science, political ecology, and economic history are welcome. Articles that highlight European administrators, settlers, or colonial policies should be submitted elsewhere, unless they deal substantially with interactions with (or the affects on) African societies.
