To 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 circulated to 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. No hard copies are required.

We recommend an initial query to the editor (email: 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.