H-IslamInAfrica

H-IslamInAfrica promotes scholarly research, both within and outside Africa, in all areas and disciplines of the social sciences and humanities relevant to Islam in Africa. We want to encourage international cooperation and facilitate the exchange of ideas and meaningful dialogue among persons engaged in research on Islam in Africa. Toward those ends, the network aims to:

Encourage the publication and dissemination of scholarly and artistic works as well as primary sources on Islamic studies and related topics.
Organize panels, symposia, and conferences on Islam in Africa at meetings of regional, national and international organizations.
And provide the general public with information on issues of historical, cultural, and contemporary interest in Islam in Africa.

Recent Content

Call for Applications: The African Humanities Program is calling for new Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications

We are pleased to announce that the ACLS African Humanities Program is now accepting applications for 2019-20 postdoctoral fellowships. The deadline to apply for an AHP Postdoctoral Fellowship is November 20, 2019, 9pm GMT.

About the Program

Since 2008, the African Humanities Program (AHP) has worked to reinvigorate the humanities in Africa through fellowship competitions and related activities in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. In partnership with Carnegie Corporation of New York, which has generously provided funding, AHP has offered African scholars an integrated set of

Apply for a grant to digitise collections at risk

The Endangered Archives Programme seeks to preserve cultural heritage and make it available to as wide an audience as possible. We fund digitisation projects to record the content of archives, which can include rare printed sources, manuscripts, visual materials, or audio recordings. We aim to enhance local capacity to manage and preserve archival collections into the future, and therefore all applications must involve at least one archival partner in the country where the material is based.

We welcome applications for funding on an annual basis. The current deadline for preliminary

CfP: 2nd Rocky Mountain Workshop on African History (Salt Lake City, Utah, August 7-8, 2020)

2nd Rocky Mountain Workshop on African History

BYU Salt Lake Center, Salt Lake City, Utah

August 7-8, 2020

This is a call for papers, panels, and discussants for the 2nd Rocky Mountain Workshop on African History. Inspired by the success of the North Eastern Workshop on Southern Africa, the Rocky Mountain Workshop is designed to provide an intensive and critical discussion of pre-circulated papers on any aspect of African history. Papers with historical dimensions but originating from other disciplines, such as anthropology or political science, are welcome.

Over the course of two days, the

CfP: International Journal of African Historical Studies, Special Issue: Prophets and Prophecy in Postcolonial Africa

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Journal of African Historical Studies

Special Issue: Prophets and Prophecy in Postcolonial Africa

Guest Editors:

Dima Hurlbut, Boston University

Andreana Prichard, University of Oklahoma

This is a call for papers for a special issue of the International Journal of African Historical Studies (IJAHS), a peer-reviewed journal published triannually by the African Studies Center at Boston University, on the topic of Prophets and Prophecy in Postcolonial Africa.

Since the emergence of African studies as a legitimate field of inquiry, historians and anthropologists