Böcker i Fontes Historiae Africanae-serien

The Goggam Chronicle is a vital source for the history of church and state in Ethiopia. This English edition and translation addresses the needs of scholars, researchers, and all those interested in Ethiopian history, Amharic language and literature, and the Orthodox church.

Made famous through Evans-Pritchard's ethnography, the Nuer are the second largest ethnic group in South Sudan. They were the object of Britain's last pacification campaign in Africa. The contemporary administrative reports and more recent interviews with Nuer and Dinka participants collected here cover significant events from 1898 to 1930.

The short-lived rebellion of 1915 was led by John Chilembwe, a Baptist minister trained in the USA. This book contains the testimonies presented to the Commission of Inquiry. Together, they are a source for understanding the causes and character of the Rising and throw light on social and economic relations in early colonial Malawi.

Clement Brasseur was the officer responsible for initiating the colonial occupation of Katanga in the 1890s. Available in English for the first time, these letters reveal the racist and gendered world inhabited by Brasseur and show that the early colonial experience was as violent in Katanga as in other areas.

In 1850 John Beecroft (a British Consul in West Africa) kept a diary of his diplomatic mission to the kingdom of Dahomey (in what is today the Republic of Benin). His (unsuccessful) assignment was to suppress the trans-Atlantic slave trade and to persuade the Dahomian king, Gezo, to accept a treaty to ban the export of slaves from his dominions.

This volume focuses on the translations of a single African language newspaper Ablode ('the Key to Freedom'). It follows the story of decolonisation and the history of the Ghana-Togo borderlands, demonstrating that engagement with specific African-language texts is indispensable to the study of Africa and Africans in global history.

Gomes's Viagem..., written in 1648, presents in rare detail the relations of the Portuguese creole community with the African population of south-central Africa.

This book contains some of the richest written material in existence for precolonial West Africa. It provides the complete text of the Inquisition trial of Crispina Peres, a woman born in the Guinea-Bissau region in the 1630s, alongside precious details on the lives, conflicts, worldviews and struggles of individuals in 17th century West Africa.

Reverend Apolo Kivebulaya was a clergyman in the Native Anglican Church of Uganda, becoming a teacher after his 1895 baptism. His writing illustrates a literate Christian identity formed away from centres of power, while oral and written accounts about him show the responses of African admirers and how Christianity influenced their societies.

Konadu provides a unique collection of sources written in Portuguese, Latin, Italian, French, and Spanish for Africa's Gold Coast, from the late 15th to 17th century. Students, scholars, and professionals with an avid interest in early modern African, Atlantic, and world history will benefit the English translations, many for the first time.