The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial African Historiography. Cet article n’est pas disponible.The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial African Historiography

The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial African Historiography explores history's fortunes in Modern Africa south of the Sahara, from the discipline's Golden Age as a handmaiden in struggles against colonialism, to the uncertain present where the continent's historians struggle to justify their value to frequently sceptical publics.

Thula Simpson is presently affiliated to the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria and is an editor of the Journal of African History. His research specializations include the history of the African National Congress's armed struggle, modern South African history, and African historians and historiography. His publications on these topics include Umkhonto we Sizwe: The ANC's Armed Struggle (2016), History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present (2021), and the edited ANC and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa: Essential Writings (2017), and History Beyond Apartheid: New Approaches in South African Historiography. His contributions to this book are based on research supported by the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Immanuel R. Harisch is currently a Post-Doctoral researcher in a project on Zambian-Yugoslav relations at the University of Vienna, Austria. His thesis on African trade unions during the Cold War has been awarded the Walter Markov Price for Global History and the Young Scholars' Award 2024 of the German African Studies Association. He has studied, worked and researched in Tanzania and Zambia and has published edited volumes and articles on African socialisms, East-South relations and historical knowledge production. Since 2021 he has been the managing editor of the fully open access journal Stichproben. Vienna Journal of African Studies.