List of historians of Africa

This is a list of historians of Africa.

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Algeria Abd al-Aziz ibn Shaddad Ahmad al-Maqqari Mohamed Harbi Ahmed Tewfik El Madani Abdelkarim Badjadja Tayeb Chenntouf [1] Nacéra Benseddik Corinne Chevallier Sabah Ferdi Angola Alberto Oliveira Pinto  [ pt ] Benin Abdou Serpos Tidjani  [ fr ] Zakari Dramani-Issifou Abiola Félix Iroko Bertin Calixte Biah  [ fr ] Dieudonné Gnammankou Amzat Boukari-Yabara  [ fr ] Marie-Cécile Zinsou Botswana Leonard Diniso Ngcongco [2] Thomas Tlou Alec Campbell Alinah Kelo Segobye Burkina Faso François Bassolet Joseph Ki-Zerbo [3] Titinga Frédéric Pacéré Jean-Baptiste Kiéthéga Burundi Pierre Baranyanka Joseph Gahama Augustin Nsanze Cabo Verde Lilica Boal António Aurélio Gonçalves Cameroon Martin Zachary Njeuma Joseph-Marie Essomba  [ fr ] Eldridge Mohammadou  [ fr ] Engelbert Mveng Jean-Paul Notué  [ fr ] Achille Mbembe Virginie Wanyaka Bonguen Oyongmen  [ fr ] Central African Republic Raphaël Nzabakomada-Yakoma Chad Ibn Furtu Côte d'Ivoire Pierre Kipré Christophe Wondji [4] DR Congo Albert-Joseph Kasongo Wa Kapinga V. Y. Mudimbe Théophile Obenga Zacharie Tshimanga Wa Tshibangu Elikia M'Bokolo  [ fr ] Isidore Ndaywel è Nziem Jean Kambayi Bwatshia  [ fr ] Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja Jacques Depelchin Egypt Demetrius the Chronographer Annianus of Alexandria Manetho Ibn Abd al-Hakam Al-Balawī Eutychius of Alexandria Ibn Zulaq Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Kindi Al-Musabbihi Severus ibn al-Muqaffa Al-Qifti Ibn al-Tuwayr Al-Jawwani Jirjis al-Makin Ibn al-'Amid Ibn Abd al-Zahir Shafi' bin Ali el-Masry Ibn al-Dawadari Ibn al-Furat Ibn Duqmaq al-Maqrizi Al-Mufaddal ibn Abi al-Fada'il Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Nuwayri al-Iskandarani Al-Nuwayri Ibn Taghribirdi Ibn Iyas al-Jawhari Joseph ben Isaac Sambari Abd al-Rahman al-Rafai Muhammad Farid Abu Hadid Ahmad Amin Raouf Abbas Mostafa El-Abbadi Iris Habib Elmasry Suʻād Māhir Muḥammad Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid-Marsot Younan Labib Rizk Wafaa El Saddik Khaled Fahmy Eritrea Mai Musié Ethiopia Bahrey Machbuba Alaqa Taye Gabra Mariam Yosef Ben-Jochannan Taddesse Tamrat Berhanou Abebe  [ fr ] Tekle Tsadik Mekouria [5] Zewde Gebre-Sellassie Merid Wolde Aregay Shiferaw Bekele  [ fr ] Bahru Zewde Mohammed Hassen Gabon Nicolas Metegue N'nah [6] The Gambia Papa Susso Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof Hassoum Ceesay Foday Musa Suso Ghana Kwame Arhin Francis Agbodeka Robert Addo-Fening James Anquandah [7] Albert Adu Boahen Edmund Abaka Emmanuel K. Akyeampong Nana Oforiatta Ayim Guinea Djibril Tamsir Niane [3] Djanka Tassey Condé Mamadou Dindé Diallo  [ fr ] Sekouba Bambino Guinea Bissau Patrícia Godinho Gomes Kenya Paul Mboya [8] Ali Mazrui Bethwell Allan Ogot [3] Eisha Stephen Atieno Odhiambo Mugo Gatheru Henry W. Mutoro [9] John Osogo William Robert Ochieng [10] Gideon Were Maina wa Kinyatti Ciarunji Chesaina

Liberia Abayomi Wilfrid Karnga Abeodu Bowen Jones Libya Kalifa Tillisi Ali Abdussalam Treki [11] Madagascar Bakoly Domenichini-Ramiaramanana [12] Faranirina Esoavelomandroso [13] Pierre Randrianarisoa  [ fr ] Manatsialonina Lucile Rabearimanana  [ fr ] Yvette Sylla  [ fr ] Solofo Randrianja [14] Malawi Yesaya Mlonyeni Chibambo [15] : 10  Samuel Josia Ntara [15] : 10  William Chafulumira [15] : 11  L. Daniel Soka [15] : 11  Henry Masauko Blasius Chipembere Kings Mbacazwa Phiri [16] Owen J. M. Kalinga [17] Desmond Dudwa Phiri Paul Tiyambe Zeleza Mali Balla Fasséké Mahmud Kati Banzumana Sissoko Kassé Mady Diabaté Siramori Diabaté Amadou Hampâté Bâ Sékéné Mody Cissoko  [ fr ] Massa Makan Diabaté Madina Ly-Tall Drissa Diakité (historian)  [ fr ] Tidiane Diakité Mahmoud Abdou Zouber  [ fr ] Bintou Sanankoua Sidiki Diabaté Adame Ba Konaré Mauritania Ahmad ibn al-Amin al-Shinqiti Deddoud ould Abdellahi  [ fr ] Mauritius Abdool Cader Kalla Alfred North-Coombes  [ fr ] Amédée Nagapen  [ fr ] Auguste Toussaint Vijaya Teelock Morocco Ibn Battuta al-Idrisi Mohammed al-Baydhaq Ibn al-Khabbaza Ibn Abd al-Malik al-Marrakushi Ibn Abi Zar 'Abd al-Wahid al-Marrakushi Ibn Hammad Abu al-Hasan Ali al-Jaznai Taqi al-Din al-Fasi Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali Mohammed al-Duayf Mohammed al-Ifrani Abu al-Qasim al-Zayyani Sulayman al-Hawwat Mohammed al-Qadiri Ahmad ibn Hamdun ibn al-Hajj Ibn Zaydan Ahmad ibn Khalid an-Nasiri Ibn Ghazi al-Miknasi Mohammed Akensus Tuhami al-Wazzani Mohammed Boujendar Al-Abbas ibn Ibrahim as-Samlali Abdelwahab Benmansour Robert Assaraf Mohammed Mokhtar Soussi Mohamed Hajji Mohammed Zniber Abdelhadi Tazi Brahim Boutaleb Germain Ayache Halima Ferhat Abdelhak Mrini Michel Abitbol Ali Azayku Abdelmajid Benjelloun Ahmed Toufiq Muhammad Al Barka Mozambique Yohanna Barnaba Abdallah Mario Azevedo João Paulo Borges Coelho Fernando Ganhão  [ fr ] Namibia Andreas Vogt (historian)  [ de ] Peter Katjavivi Niger Boubou Hama André Salifou Diouldé Laya Mamoudou Djibo  [ fr ] Nigeria Abd al-Qadir dan Tafa Samuel Johnson T. Ola Avoseh Akiga Sai Jacob Egharevba Israel Iwekanuno Olumide Lucas Muhammadu Junaidu Kenneth Dike [3] Saburi Biobaku [3] TGO Gbadamosi J. F. Ade Ajayi [3] E. A. Ayandele [3] Obaro Ikime [3] Bala Usman Isaac Adeagbo Akinjogbin Adiele Afigbo [3] E. J. Alagoa [3] Philip Igbafe Bassey Wai-Andah [18] Joseph Adebowale Atanda Toyin Falola Bawuro Barkindo [19] Abdullahi Mahadi Anthony Ijaola Asiwaju [20] G. O. Olusanya Tekena Tamuno Mahdi Adamu [21] Nowa Omoigui Folarin Shyllon Boniface Obichere [22] Mahmud Modibbo Tukur Michael Crowder Adebowale Adefuye Bolanle Awe Don C. Ohadike Bukar Usman Martin Lynn Bala Achi Akinwumi Ogundiran Olayemi Akinwunmi O. A. Akinyeye Rufus Akinyele Joseph E. Inikori [23] CBN Ogbogbo Ayodeji Olukoju Akanmu Adebayo Saheed Aderinto Abosede George Obi Iwuagwu Apollos Okwuchi Nwauwa Chima Korieh Olufunke Adeboye Max Siollun O. C. Adesina Nwando Achebe

Republic of Congo Jérôme Ollandet  [ fr ] Scholastique Dianzinga Rwanda Alexis Kagame Ferdinand Nahimana Gamaliel Mbonimana Emmanuel Ntezimana  [ fr ] São Tomé and Príncipe Carlos Filomeno Agostinho das Neves Senegal Alioune Sarr Yoro Dyao Cheikh Anta Diop [3] Iba Der Thiam Babacar Sedikh Diouf Pathé Diagne [24] Oumar Kane (historian)  [ fr ] Abdoulaye Ly  [ fr ] [3] Iba Der Thiam Aboubacry Moussa Lam Boubacar Barry [3] Abdoulaye Bathily [3] Mamadou Diouf Penda Mbow Ibrahima Thioub  [ fr ] Pape Demba "Paco" Samb Louis Diène Faye Sierra Leone A. B. C. Sibthorpe Arthur Porter Cyril Foray Akintola J.G. Wyse Joseph Ben Kaifala Violet Showers Johnson Somalia Mohamed Haji Mukhtar Abdukadir Osman Jama Omar Issa South Africa Fransjohan Pretorius George McCall Theal John Agar-Hamilton George Cory H. B. Thom Mbombini Molteno Sihele Johan Hendrik Breytenbach Silas Molema Gustav Preller Anna Böeseken Eric Rosenthal Arrie van Rensburg Mohamed Adhikari Colin Bundy Colin Webb (historian) Shula Marks Fransjohan Pretorius Noel Mostert Martin Legassick William Beinart Jeff Guy Milton Shain Saul Dubow Carolyn Hamilton Jeff Peires John Laband Nigel Worden Jacob Dlamini Bernard K. Mbenga Zeblon Zulu Hlonipha Mokoena Sudan Yusuf Fadl Hasan [25] Fadwa Taha Tanzania Nathaniel Mtui Arnold Temu [26] : 629  Fidelis Masao [27] Isaria Kimambo [26] : 629  Abdul Sheriff Togo Atsutsè Kokouvi Agbobli Tunisia Ibn Khaldun Ahmad ibn Abi Diyaf Hassan Husni Abd al-Wahhab Juliette Bessis Ammar Mahjoubi  [ fr ] Mohamed Talbi Hichem Djait M'hamed Hassine Fantar Lucette Valensi Abdeljelil Temimi Sophie Bessis Mohamed Hédi Chérif Latifa Lakhdar Mounira Harbi-Riahi Dalenda Larguèche Adnen Mansser Mounira Chapoutot Liliane Ennabli Mohamed El Aziz Ben Achour Uganda Apollo Kaggwa John W. Nyakatura Festo Karwemera Phares Mukasa Mutibwa [28] Samwiri Lwanga-Lunyiigo [29] Catherine Namono Zambia Mutumba Mainga Zimbabwe Ngwabi Mulunge Bhebe [30] Ken Mufuka Stan Mudenge David Chanaiwa [31] Elleck Mashingaidze Jacob Chikuhwa Ngwabi Bhebhe Alois Mlambo [32] Innocent Pikirayi Shadreck Chirikure Patricia Hayes

Africanists al-Masudi Al-Bakri Leo Africanus Reginald Coupland Robert Elwyn Bradbury Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Anatole-Joseph Toulotte John Fage Richard Leslie Hill William Miller Macmillan Roland Oliver William Leo Hansberry Basil Davidson Jean Vercoutter Jean Yoyotte John D. Hargreaves Hélène d'Almeida-Topor Endre Sík Jean Devisse  [ fr ] Jean Suret-Canale H. F. C. Smith Richard Pankhurst Thomas Lionel Hodgkin Terence Ranger Robert Smith Martin A. Klein A. G. Hopkins Roy Bridges Julian Cobbing John Parkington David Phillipson Robert O. Collins René Rebuffat Kevin Shillington Douglas Rimmer Andrew D. Roberts Charles Thurstan Shaw David Northrup Philip D. Curtin Jan Vansina Jehan Desanges Yves Person Rex Sean O'Fahey Tadeusz Lewicki Yvette Duval Adrian Hastings Frederick Cooper Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch Walter Rodney John Henrik Clarke Asa Grant Hilliard III John E. Flint Merrick Posnansky Nehemia Levtzion Elizabeth Isichei Ivor Wilks Michael Izard [33] Dierk Lange [34] Yuri Kobishchanov Enrico Cerulli Raymond K. Kent [35] Louise Pirouet Bernard Lugan Joseph C. Miller Stefan Jakobielski Ivan Hrbek  [ cs ] Jean Herskovits Luboš Kropáček  [ cs ] Robert Hess Linda Heywood E. Jefferson Murphy David Newbury Dmitri Olderogge [36] Bill Freund Oliver Furley Allen Isaacman Lewis H. Gann Hugh C. Brooks Joseph Roger de Benoist Jean-Pierre Chrétien  [ fr ] Christopher Ehret René Lemarchand Stephen Ellis Tore Linné Eriksen Claude Meillassoux Tudor Parfitt Judith E. Tucker Ian L. Campbell John Thornton Murray Last Cheryl Johnson-Odim Marika Sherwood Hakim Adi David Maxwell Anne Hugon Martin Meredith Lorelle D. Semley Gérard Prunier Megan Vaughan Miles Larmer Candice Goucher Derek R. Peterson Sandra Elaine Greene Jan Jansen Douglas H. Johnson Butch Ware David Olusoga Felicitas Becker Sylviane Diouf

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