Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique (RHCA) est une revue open access d’histoire de l’Afrique à comité de lecture. La revue publie deux numéros thématiques par an et propose différentes rubriques : articles varias, comptes rendus de lecture, entretiens, et sources, terrains & contextes.
Submissions
The Revue d'Histoire Contemporaine de l'Afrique (RHCA) publishes double-blind peer-reviewed articles. We welcome innovative research papers using historical methods and offering original perspectives on the modern history of Africa (including North Africa, and the Indian Ocean). The journal is fully digital. We publish two issues a year, featuring a thematic dossier, miscellaneous articles, interview(s), field reports and/or book reviews. We may also publish scientific news announcements. Research articles and book reviews may be added as they become available on the journal's website.
For any information on articles or special issues proposals, please write to revuerhca@gmail.com
Special Issues
Interested authors may offer to coordinate thematic special issues. If they are inspired by a conference, they must be the subject of a new call for papers, open to all.
Articles examined as part of a special issue must not exceed 55,000 characters (including spaces and bibliographies).
Miscellanea
Authors may submit unsolicited contributions for publication in the Miscellanea section. Articles must not exceed 55,000 characters in length and must comply with the journal’s editorial policy and guidelines.
Critical Reviews
Authors may submit unsolicited critical reviews (5,000 to 15,000 characters) of a book, novel or exhibition deemed to be of interest for the modern history of Africa. They can also contact the journal’s editorial team to ask publishers to send them books.
NB: Articles proposed for thematic issues and for the miscellaneous section are evaluated in a double-blind process by experienced researchers working on the subject. Interviews, Critical Reviews and Sources, Fieldwork and Context’s papers are assessed directly by the editorial team. Authors undertake not to submit their article to another journal while the evaluation process is underway.
Interviews
The Interview section gives the floor to a range of people (historians, artists, griots, storytellers, activists, politicians, etc.) who think about African history, or who have been (and still are) witnesses to the continent's modern history. Interviews are published on an ongoing basis and accompany the thematic issues. We therefore invite researchers to submit proposals for interviews that include: an introduction (half a page), the interview (35,000 characters) and a photograph of the interviewee. A standard consent form signed by the interviewee must also be submitted, in line with our ethical policies.
Sources, Fields & Contexts
This section analyses links between sources, fields of study and the contexts in which historical research in African studies is produced and received. It shows how sources are collected and processed in the research field in concrete and precise terms, through different production contexts and from the viewpoints of academic institutions in and out of Africa.
From a situated research perspective, it is important to show how work on sources reveals transformations in their access and analysis. By taking into account the historical, historiographical and reflexive contexts of research data, historians are invited to question their relationship to the discipline in terms of: the characteristics and expectations of their time, their status as researcher (insider/outsider/partial insider), or in relation to memory politics—access to written material, censorship, promotion, revisionism, etc.
Finally, this section invites historians from different generations, or with other disciplines, to discuss how access to sources has changed over time, and how sources can be analysed—either jointly or cross-disciplinarily—depending on their disciplinary background and academic affiliation.
While the focus is history, this section is also open to authors from other backgrounds and/or from outside of academia, who demonstrate an interest in presenting sources and explaining the context in which they were produced.
Expected articles are aimed at a wider readership, hence the shorter and more accessible format (30,000 characters including spaces, i.e. around 5,000 words, including notes and bibliography) with a summary in French and English (200 words each).
