Zamani: A Journal of African Historical Studies

About the Journal

Dear Authors,

We no longer accept new submissions via our OJS website.

We have now migrated our submission link from OJS to UDSM Digital Commons, which is hosted by Elsevier.

Therefore, from July 23, 2025, onwards, we will only process new submissions on UDSM Digital Commons, available at: https://commons.udsm.ac.tz/ zjahs/

Manuscripts already under review in the OJS system will continue to be processed and available to authors and reviewers on that platform until completion.

Please note that the OJS login link will eventually be deactivated once all pending manuscripts have reached a final decision.

Chief Editor

Zamani Journal

An international journal of 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.

The journal is Open Access and the 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.

The journal became Open Access on 1 January 2025 and is published open access on ScienceOpen. This means the Reuse rights of published material is all under the open CC BY 4.0 license as stated here.

Journal DOI: https://doi.org/10.56279/ZJAHS1

Journal Print ISSN: 2961-6484 

Journal Online ISSN: 3108-8546

Currently indexed in: Google Scholar, ScienceOpen, JSTOR and EBSCO.