The African Humanities Series

The African Humanities Series covers topics in African histories, languages, literatures, philosophies, politics and cultures and is intended to speak to scholars in Africa as well as in other world areas. Its core goal is to foreground the best research on the continent and was launched in 2014 as a project of the African Humanities Program (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies. Now under the auspices of the African Humanities Association (AHA), which was established in 2020 by AHP fellows, assessors, and advisers, the African Humanities Series is published in collaboration with NISC (Pty) Ltd.

The series has broadened its coverage of topics and authorship to capture the work of scholars engaged in African Humanities research across the entire continent and globally. The expanded scope of the African Humanities Series is accommodated under two imprints:
Reflections: A forum for African scholars as well as those in the diaspora to publish work on the state of the humanities on the continent. It will encourage especially senior scholars to reflect on their own experiences of past and current Humanities scholarship.
Cutting Edge: An outlet for innovative Humanities work which unsettles the boundaries of knowledge in ways which make us think anew about the abiding social problems across the continent.

Series editors: Adigun Agbaje & Fred Hendricks