Xenophobia is a ubiquitous oppression and the South African case is increasingly becoming a recurrent topic in the 21st century as the phenomenon has potentials of tearing-apart multilateral peace agreement between South Africa and other countries. The factors that trigger xenophobia have been subsumed under political, cultural and socio-economic factors with many ...

This forum article explores the major intellectual trajectories in the historical archaeology of Eastern Africa over the last sixty years. Two primary perspectives are identified in historical archaeology: one that emphasizes precolonial history and oral traditions with associated archaeology, and another that focuses mostly on the era of European contact with Afri...

This article outlines the historical development in African studies of the sub-discipline of historical epidemiology and the contemporary challenges of understanding infectious disease processes that require integrating biomedical and historical knowledge. It suggests that Africanist historians can play a significant role in collaborative and multidisciplinary rese...