Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire

Internationally refereed, Afriques is an academic journal about African worlds focusing on periods prior to the twentieth century.

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📣 New special issue :
"Cold Cases? The Archives of Archaeology as Sources of the African Past"
dir. by Léa Roth, Gérard Chouin and Chloé Capel
9 exciting articles... with
to be followed here with more developed posts.
https://t.co/meuqaFziXc
@Lea__Roth, @glchouin

[Florian Louis @flr_louis]

Clélia Coret - Écrire l'histoire sur la côte est-africaine au XIXe siècle

Pouvoirs, territoires et usages du passé

À paraître le 26 février aux Éditions de la Sorbonne

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In the service of the Ethiopian State, he was arguably the first Catholic Oromo royal scribe and a revered adviser to King Susǝnyos and the Jesuit missionaries.
Ṭino’s life and times represent one of the distinctive cases of Oromo’s integration into the state apparatus.

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📣 "Oromo Court Intellectual, Catholic Martyr: Ṭino’s Negotiation of Identity, Faith and Power, 1600s–1638"
by Awegichew Amare (Gondar Univ.)
is online !

#Ethiopia #17th-century #KingSusenyos #catholicism #translation

https://t.co/GaaF8P2pfc

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Drawing on 1ary sources, the study situates Ṭino's life within the earliest encounters of an Oromo individual with the Ethiopian court, the Jesuit missionaries and the Orthodox Church. From his Oromo origins to his martyrdom as a Catholic Tino endorsed multiple identities.

[Canal Historique @HistoriqueCanal]

C'est la rentrée de @HistoriqueCanal! Retrouvons-nous mercredi pour un apéro-débat avec Elena Vezzadini, historienne. Nous parlerons des origines de la crise au Soudan en revenant sur l'histoire complexe et mouvementée du pays
RV le 24/09 à 19h30 à la Cantine Pas Si Loin à Pantin

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It then evolved to become a tool in the fight against the Dutch monopoly that had been established, particularly in the kingdom of Eguafo. Villault de Bellefond would have taken up and enriched this legend, of which he became aware during his visit to the region.

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New article : "In search of African voices in European narratives: Nicolas Villault de Bellefond’s travel account and the legend of French priority in West Africa (17th century)"

by
Matthieu Provençalle (Rouen Univ.)

https://t.co/LmirZFtXUu

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This article develops another hypothesis: this legend would have been elaborated by Africans living on the Gold Coast in the early 17th century to attract the French to the region and put an end to the Portuguese monopoly.

[Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD @araujohistorian]

The @CSISlavery 2025 Annual Lecture "Restitution and the Teaching of African History" will be delivered by dearest historian Toby Green (@toby00green) at The Athenaeum, Liverpool, UK, on February 18, 2025, 5:00 PM GMT #slaveryarchive REGISTER here https://t.co/CcQZpKjVmz

[Transcribathon @transcribathon]

We're in the final stretch of the Antoine d'Abbadie Run! Help us uncover the secrets of this explorer, geographer, and linguist before the clock runs out! Every contribution counts. #handwriting #Ethiopia #digitalhistory @FFHistorians @TranscrireAdA Link in comments 🔗👇

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@AfEconHis 👋😉

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📣CfP : Towards a history of the economies of sub-Saharan Africa, from the Middle Ages to the end of the 19th c

to be published in 2026

Coordinated by S. Sanchez (Univ. Paris-1), N. Swanepoel (Univ. of South Africa) & A. Wion (CNRS).

https://t.co/TaaJTci1Bf

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Proposals for articles should be sent in the form of an abstract, in French or English, of around 500 words by 15 March 2025.
Final papers should be submitted by 15 July 2025 for publication at the end of 2026 and should be no longer than 10 000 words.

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@jean_soulat @de_piraterie @LePoint @eschapasse Bravo ! C'est le moment de faire un peu de pub pour votre excellent article paru dans Afriques 😉

https://t.co/4BsLk6CgXf