African Historical Review

Aims & Scope

The African Historical Review (formerly Kleio: A Journal of Historical Studies from Africa) is an accredited, peer-reviewed journal with a long and distinguished history.

Originally conceived as a research and teaching forum for histories taught in the Department of History at the University of South Africa and to promote the work of students and staff, the journal is now an international publication for high quality articles on a wide variety of historical subjects.

The African Historical Review is independent of any professional society or association.

Its mission is to be transdisciplinary, responsive to theoretical developments in research relating to the continent of Africa and within fields closely linked to historical and heritage studies .

The journal welcomes contributions from both established and younger scholars on themes from or in Africa, and encourages innovative writing and research on a variety of topics and with an array of theoretical frameworks.

The outstanding level of professional research and writing displayed in the journal has been recognised internationally, and since 2004 it has been an accredited academic journal by the Department of Higher Education and Training.

All research articles published in The African Historical Review have undergone rigorous peer-review, involving initial editor screening and anonymized review by at least two referees.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.2
2024	0.10

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.153

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	24281

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	382

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• ‘Go Outside’: The History, Economics and Geography of Ghanaian Football Labour Migration

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Paul

• A history of conservation of built heritage sites of the Swahili Coast in Tanzania

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Elgidius B.

• Problems and Prospects for Community-based Tourism in the New South Africa: The 2010 FIFA World Cup and Beyond

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Andrea, John

• From Narratives of Miscegenation to Post-Modernist Re-Imagining: Toward a Historiography of Coloured Identity in South Africa

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Mohamed

• ’African Churches Willing to Pay Their Own Bills’: The Role of Money in the Formation of Ethiopian-type Churches with Particular Reference to the Mzimba Secession

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Graham A.

• Portuguese Immigrant History in Twentieth Century South Africa: A Preliminary Overview

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Clive

• 'A mother makes no bastard': Family law, sexual relations and illegitimacy in Dutch colonial Cape Town, c. 1652-1795

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Gerald

• Elite Exoticism: Sea-rail Cruise Tourism to South Africa, 1926–1939

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Gordon H.

• ‘The Devil Who Heals’: Fraud and Falsification in the Evangelical Career of John G Lake, Missionary to South Africa 1908–1913

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Barry

• Europe’s First Settler Colonial Incursion into Africa: The Genocide of Aboriginal Canary Islanders

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Mohamed

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