r/AfricanHistory 3d ago

The Oil Economies of Pre-colonial West Africa: Palm Oil and the Industrial Revolution (1800-1891)

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49 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory 10d ago

Ancient African Matriarchies: Between Myth and History

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38 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory 17d ago

A History of Agadez: The Desert city of Aïr (1400-1900)

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22 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory 24d ago

Fractals and Euclidean Geometry in Pre-colonial African Architecture: A New Perspective

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29 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory Jun 21 '26

Pre-Dynastic Egypt and the Origins of the World's First State.

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28 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory Jun 14 '26

Ancient African Architecture in Global History.

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44 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory Jun 07 '26

Rethinking the “Technology Gap” in African History: Guns, Plows, and Furnaces.

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105 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory May 31 '26

The History of Writing in African Languages: From Arabic to Vernacular.

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52 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory May 24 '26

The Camel in African History: Ancient Ships of the Sahara

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44 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory May 17 '26

African and European Explorers in the 19th century: Competing Narratives of “Discovery.”

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47 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory May 10 '26

The Luo Migrations: Reassessing “Stateless” Societies in Pre-Colonial Africa

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60 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory May 03 '26

African Revolutions and External Influences during the Long Nineteenth Century

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33 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory Apr 26 '26

Africa Was Not an Anarchist Paradise: Misconceptions about Precolonial State-Building in Africa

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71 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory Apr 19 '26

Wealth-in-People and Wealth-in-Land in Pre-colonial Africa: Reassessing the Evidence.

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25 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory Apr 12 '26

The Mossi States: pre-Islamic Kingdoms in Burkina Faso ca. 1300-1897

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39 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory Apr 05 '26

The first Africanists: Intellectual Collaboration and the Origins of African Studies in the late 19th to early 20th century.

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29 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory Mar 29 '26

The Gold Trade and Currency of Medieval West Africa (1000-1900 CE)

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18 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory Mar 22 '26

The Invention and Spread of Writing in Global and African History.

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26 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory Mar 15 '26

The Medieval city of Sijilmasa and the empires of North Western Africa. (757-1818 CE)

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15 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory Mar 08 '26

The Roman-African borderlands and expeditions south of the Sahara.

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25 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory Mar 01 '26

The myth of the Hamitic race in religious and pseudo-scientific literature: an African perspective

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18 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory Feb 22 '26

A Pictorial History of Africa: Insights from Ancient Figurative Art.

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13 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory Feb 15 '26

Megalithic Landscapes of Ethiopia from Prehistory to the Modern Era

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26 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory Feb 08 '26

On the Enduring Role of Forts and Fortifications in Pre-Colonial African Military history.

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21 Upvotes

r/AfricanHistory Feb 01 '26

Forgotten Cities of the Swahili coast: A history of Pemba in the Medieval Indian Ocean World (ca. 600-1822 CE)

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29 Upvotes