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African historiography is a branch of historiography concerning the African continent, its peoples, nations and variety of written and non-written histories.It has differentiated itself from other continental areas of historiography due to its multidisciplinary nature, as Africa's unique and varied methods of recording history have resulted in a lack of an established set of historical works ...
Microhistory is a genre of history that focuses on small units of research, such as an event, community, individual or a settlement. In its ambition, however, microhistory can be distinguished from a simple case study insofar as microhistory aspires to "[ask] large questions in small places", according to the definition given by Charles Joyner ...
The writing systems of Africa refer to the current and historical practice of writing systems on the African continent, both indigenous and those introduced. In many African societies, history generally used to be recorded orally despite most societies having developed a writing script, leading to them being termed "oral civilisations" in ...
The African Union Ten Years After: Solving African Problems with Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance. Africa Institute of South Africa. ISBN 978-0-7983-0387-3. Ndlovu, Morgan (2018). "Coloniality of Knowledge and the Challenge of Creating African Futures". Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies. 40 (2). California Digital Library (CDL).
In 2003, Magnússon founded and chaired the Center for Microhistorical Research, which, among other things, runs the internet web page microhistory.org and publishes books on microhistorical issues. He is the editor of the web journal The Journal of Microhistory with his co-worker d, a long-time fr, Dr Davið Ólafsson.
The Allegory On the Writing of History shows Truth (top) watching the historian write history, while advised by Wisdom.(Jacob de Wit,1754)Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension, the term historiography is any body of historical work on a particular subject.
Christopher Ehret (born 27 July 1941), who currently holds the position of Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA, is an American scholar of African history and African historical linguistics particularly known for his efforts to correlate linguistic taxonomy and reconstruction with the archeological record.
The roots of Ethiopian historical writing can be traced back to the ancient Kingdom of Aksum (c. AD 100 – c. 940). These early texts were written in either the Ethiopian Ge'ez script or the Greek alphabet , and included a variety of mediums such as manuscripts and epigraphic inscriptions on monumental stelae and obelisks documenting ...