Journal of African Military History

17/07/2021

Four years ago today, the first issue of the Journal of African Military History was published. Last month, we published the first issue of our fifth volume. In the short time we have been publishing, we have helped to foster a scholarly community that brings together the best and the brightest who have a similar vision regarding the role of African military affairs and the ways both old and new military history can provide us with a lens that gives depth and breadth to the African past and the indelible mark it has left on the entire world.

To everyone who has published with us, we thank you. To everyone who reads our publication, we thank you. To everyone who has written a review, peer evaluated an article, served on our editorial board, or urged their library to subscribe to our journal, we thank you.

Thanks to everyone for a memorable five years, and we hope for many more to come.

"Journal of African Military History" published on by Brill.

24/06/2021

Hello friends,

The latest issue of the Journal of African Military History is available on the website for your perusal.

If you are affiliated with an educational or research institution and cannot access our journal, please ask your library or archive to add it to their subscription package. The best way for us to continue to add subscribers is produce quality work, and the best way to help us produce quality work is to subscribe!

It's a circular argument, I know.

"Volume 5 (2021): Issue 1 (Jun 2021)" published on 17 Sep 2020 by Brill.

28/05/2021

Hello friends,

Our latest issue has been sent to the presses, and we are very excited about it, and not just because it is the 5th anniversary of our publication. We have two very innovative and important articles in this issue. The first, by Edward A. Alpers, is one we hope will become one of the most important contributions to pre-colonial African military history in recent years.

Our second article, by Otman Bychou continues the examination of the African experience in World War II, and studies French and American views of Moroccan "Goums".

Melvin Page weighs in on African military traditions as part of our "New Lens" series and Lee Cassanelli reviews Paul D. Williams' new book on the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM).

If you are at a university or other type of academic institution, we continue to ask you to urge your library to add our journal to its subscription package. Ensuring our financial future is the best way to ensure we continue to grow as an academic community.

Thank you all for your continued support.

24/05/2021

Hello Friends of the journal,
We have several exciting updates that we will be updating over the week, but we wanted to begin with an announcement of personnel changes here at the Journal of African Military History. Our founding review editor William Fitzsimmons, who took the position as a graduate student, has since earned his PhD, and has taken a position as historian at the U.S. Air Force. I hope you all join us in congratulating Will on his new path and thanking him for the years of hard work in making the journal a success!

Joining our team are two amazing scholars and editors, Bafumiki Mocheregwa and Rishika Yadav.

Dr. Bafumiki Mocheregwa recently completed his doctorate at the University of Calgary. His dissertation examines the establishment and development of the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) from its Police Mobile Unit roots (PMU) to the early 2000s. Aside from editing his thesis for publication, Bafumiki is also finalizing edits on a paper submitted to the War & Society journal. It discusses the role of apartheid South Africa on the BDF’s arms purchases in the late Cold War period. We met Dr. Mocheregwa when he submitted his article to the journal for a previous issue, and Dr. Charlie Thomas served on his dissertation committee.

Rishika Yadav is pursuing her doctoral studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science with a full scholarship. Her project aims to reconstruct the experiences of ‘Coloured’, Indian and Malay soldiers from South Africa who participated in the Second World War. She has also worked as a Teaching Assistant in her department and has served as a co-editor for the LSE International History blog. Most recently she contributed a chapter on interned South African Coloured soldiers to the edited volume 'Sights, Sounds, Memories: South African Soldier Experiences of the Second World War' edited by board member Ian van der Waag. We first met Rishika and her colleagues when they submitted a proposal to the Journal's Call for Papers for the American Historical Association's 2020 conference in Seattle, which was sadly canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bafumiki and Rishika’s first task will be to ramp up the book reviews for future volumes of the journal. If you are interested in reviewing for us, please contact them. Their contact info is on Brill’s homepage for the journal, linked here.

We are also planning several more exciting projects that will enhance the discussion of Africa’s military past and its place in the world, so keep watching this space for more updates and ways to be an active part of our scholarly community.

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