Books in the Fontes Historiae Africanae series

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.

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.

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.