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A video of the panel “Writing in African Studies Journals: what, how, and where?” of ECAS5 in Lisbon 2013 is now available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQr0XBoPRKM

Blog-posts showing images selected from the immensely rich resource of the Royal Commonwealth Society’s Photograph Collection in Cambridge University Library offer a foretaste of a much larger digital exhibition of historical photographs of the Gold Coast and Ghana to be mounted in memory of Michael Fuller who worked at...

New research on the treatment of 'hardcore' female Mau Mau prisoners by the British in the late 1950s sheds new light on how ideas about gender, deviancy and mental health shaped colonial practices of punishment. The story of the female detainees at Gitamayu and Kamiti also reveals unique elements that were determined by...