ABOUT ZAMANI JOURNAL

Zamani is an international journal on African history which is based in Africa. It has an international editorial board and welcomes cutting-edge and high-quality research on Africa's rich and diverse pasts. Zamani journal is published biannually in January and July. The print Journal is archived at University of Dar es Salaam, and the electronic Journal is archived in Portico and Digital Commons. As an international biannual journal, it welcomes submissions for publication consideration from all over the world. It welcomes submissions that specifically engages with African history or issues that shows relationship between Africa and other parts of the world in historical perspective. The submissions can be on methodological or on conventional thematic histories like political, economic, environmental, demographic, social, cultural, medical, material culture, religion, science and technology histories covering any geographical area of the African continent. The journal promotes African perspectives and thinking on African history, in both writing and research. Thus, the journal is pan-African thematically and geographically. The journal has an international and diverse editorial team of established and proven historians of Africa from Africa itself, Europe and North America.

Zamani journal is not fundamentally a new journal. Between 1964 and 1991, Zamani was a series of publications in African history that promoted African perspectives. It was a series that was spearheaded by Africanist historians who were based in East African universities first at the University of East Africa and later at the universities of Dar es Salaam, Makerere and Nairobi. The prominent historians who published under this monographic series include Isariah N. Kimambo, Bethwel Ogot, John Iliffe and Andrew Roberts. Between 1992 and 2023, the Zamani series was changed into a journal that was known as Tanzania Zamani. The journal published articles and book reviews on the history of Tanzania only. The journal was co-published and co-owned by the Historical Association of Tanzania and the Department of History at University of Dar es Salaam. In 2024, Tanzania Zamani changed the name and scope to accommodate historical research from across the African Continent. The journal became under full control of the University of Dar es Salaam. With a new, vibrant and dynamic editorial team and board, the journal revived the spirit of the pan-African Zamani series by promoting African perspectives on the past and also became institutionally the only African-based journal of history.

The journal is fully Open Access. Its Open Access statement, Open Access license terms, copyright terms as well as a statement, on its absolute lack of author charges, can be found here.

Past issues also available at: ScienceOpen

Journal ISSN: 2961-6484 (print)

Journal e-ISSN: 3108-8546 (online)

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