African History Extra

Creating an African writing system: the Vai script of Liberia (1833-present)

Constructing Peace in a pre-colonial African state: Diplomacy and the ceremony of dialogue in Asante

Constructing a global Monument in Africa: the Zagwe Kingdom and the Rock-cut churches of Lalibela -Ethiopia (12th-13th century)

Centralizing power in an African pastoral society: The Ajuran Empire of Somalia (16th-17th century)

An African island at the nexus of global trade: The Comoros island of Nzwani from 750-1889AD

Trans-continental trade in Central Africa: The Lunda empire's role in linking the Indian and Atlantic Worlds. (1695-1870)

Revealing African spatial concepts in external documents: How the Hausalands became "cartographically visible".

Women Writing Africa: a catalogue of women scholars across the African continent from antiquity until the 19th century

The creation of an African lingua franca: the Hausa trading diaspora in West Africa. (1700-1900)

The Art of early Atlantic contacts: Sapi ivory artists and Portuguese buyers in Sierra Leone (1490-1540)

A network of African scholarship and a culture of Education: The intellectual history of west Africa through the biography of Hausa scholar Umaru al-Kanawi (1857-1934)

An African anti-Colonial alliance of convenience: Ethiopia and Sudan in the 19th century