The aftermath of slavery in East Africa

Project Information

ASEA

Grant agreement ID: 818908

DOI

10.3030/818908

EC signature date 21 October 2019

Start date 1 November 2019

End date 31 October 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 921 250,00

EU contribution

€ 1 921 250,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT GENT
Belgium

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

“How will God hear us?”: Sonic and linguistic difference among Kinshasa’s Églises des Noirs

Author(s): Margot Luyckfasseel
Published in: Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Issue vol. 93:3 (2023), 2023, Page(s) p. 351-370, ISSN 0001-9720
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press Ltd.

Cities in Africa before 1900. Historiography and Research Perspectives

Author(s): Clélia Coret, Roberto Zaugg et Gérard Chouin
Published in: Afriques: debats, methodes et terrains d'histoire, 2021, ISSN 2108-6796
Publisher: OpenEdition

Looking for life: traces of slavery in the structures and social lives of Southern Swahili towns

Author(s): Felicitas Becker
Published in: Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, 2020, ISSN 2161-9441
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Supportive, Destructive or Indifferent? Expanding Global Markets and the End of Slavery in Continental East Africa in the Twentieth Century

Author(s): Felicitas Becker, Nives Kinunda, Salvatory Nyanto
Published in: Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions, 2025, ISSN 2041-2827
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Debt, credit and obligation in Kenya’s 2022 elections

Author(s): Ngala Chome, Justin Willis
Published in: Journal of Eastern African Studies, Issue 18, 2024, Page(s) 301-320, ISSN 1753-1055
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2024.2359159

Researching the Aftermath of Slavery in Mainland East Africa: Methodological, Ethical, and Practical Challenges

Author(s): Felicitas Becker, Salvatory Nyanto, James Giblin, Ann McDougall, Alexander Meckelburg, Lotte Pelckmans
Published in: Slavery and Abolition, 2023, ISSN 1743-9523
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Muscat in Rural Tanzania: Omani Arabs, Identity, and Citizenship in Post-Slavery Tanzania, 1920s-1960s

Author(s): Salvatory Nyanto, Felicitas Becker
Published in: African Historical Review, 2024, ISSN 1753-2531
Publisher: Taylor and Francis/UNISA Press

“Runaway Slaves and the Aftermath of Slavery on the Swahili Coast. New Perspectives from Witu in the 19th Century“

Author(s): Clelia Coret
Published in: Journal of Global Slavery, 2021, ISSN 2405-836X
Publisher: Brill

'Tanzania's authoritarian turn: less sudden than it seems'

Author(s): Becker, Felicitas
Published in: Current History, 2020, ISSN 0011-3530
Publisher: Current History, Inc.

Kasongo-Tongoni: a nineteenth-century caravan town in Maniema, Democratic Republic of Congo

Author(s): Noemie Arazi, Igor Matonda, Olivier Mulumbwa Luna, Alexandre Livingstone Smith
Published in: Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, Issue 59(3), 2024, Page(s) p. 433–455, ISSN 1945-5534
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

In pursuit of freedom: oaths, slave agency and the abolition of slavery in Western Tanzania, ca. 1905-1930

Author(s): Salvatory Nyanto, Felicitas Becker
Published in: Law and History Review, 2024, ISSN 0738-2480
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0738248023000615

Voices from exile: the Mpadist mission des noirs in Oshwe’s prison camps in the Belgian Congo (1940–1960)

Author(s): Pieter de Coene, Margot Luyckfasseel, Gillian Mathys
Published in: International Journal of African Historical Studies, Issue vol. 55:1 (2022), 2022, Page(s) p. 89-114, ISSN 0361-7882
Publisher: Africana Pub. Co.

Monographic books (3)

Slave emancipation, Christian communities and dissent in post-abolition Tanzania, 1878-1978

Author(s): Salvatory Nyanto
Published in: 2024, ISBN 9781847013583
Publisher: James Currey/Boydell&Brewer

Town versus Hinterland: Moral debate, politics and race thinking in GreaterMombasa, 1895 – 1990.

Author(s): Ngala Chome
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Brill

Écrire l’histoire sur la côte est-africaine au XIXe siècle. Pouvoirs, territoires et usages du passé.

Author(s): Clelia Coret
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Editions de la Sorbonne

Book chapters (7)

Slavery legacy in the Congo Basin

Author(s): Noemie Arazi, Igor Matonda, Alexandre Livingstone Smith
Published in: Routledge Handbook of Critical African Heritage Studies, 2024, ISBN 9781003025832
Publisher: Routledge

History, Memory, and the Heritage of Slavery on the Kenyan Coast: The Witu and Shimoni Cases

Author(s): Clelia Coret, Patrick Abungu
Published in: Kenya in Motion 2000-2020, 2021
Publisher: Africae

Islam and masculinities in Africa

Author(s): Felicitas Becker
Published in: The Palgrave handbook of African men and masculinities, 2024, Page(s) p. 477-498, ISBN 978-3-031-49169-6
Publisher: Palgrave

Muslim Networks, Public Services and Development Intervention in Post-Socialist Tanzania: Between Liberalisation and Alienation

Author(s): Felicitas Becker
Published in: Governance and Islam in East Africa Muslims and the State, 2024, Page(s) p. 199-219, ISBN 9781474482998
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Squabbling about Congolese languages: the arbitrary nature of colonial language maps

Author(s): Margot Luyckfasseel
Published in: Maps that made history: 1000 years of world history in 100 old maps, 2022, Page(s) 350-351, ISBN 978-94-014-8530-2
Publisher: Lannoo

populist Islamism in East Africa: elaborating alternative futures from idealized pasts

Author(s): Felicitas Becker
Published in: Claiming the People's Past: Populist Politics of History in the Twenty-First Century, 2024, Page(s) p. 138-154., ISBN 9781009453615
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Habari za Pate : les « chroniques » de Pate (Afrique orientale)

Author(s): Clélia Coret
Published in: Encyclopédie des historiographies : Afriques, Amériques, Asies, 2020, Page(s) p. 686-699, ISBN 978-2-85831-345-7
Publisher: Presses de l'Inalco

Other (4)

Le pouvoir en ville. Espaces, cultures matérielles, scénographies en Afrique avant le XXe siècle

Author(s): Clélia Coret, Roberto Zaugg, Gérard Chouin
Published in: Afriques, 2021, ISSN 2108-6796
Publisher: OpenEdition
DOI: 10.4000/afriques.2793

Baloji's synaesthetic universe

Author(s): Margot Luyckfasseel, Sebastiao Christopher Kiaku
Published in: 2023
Publisher: africaisacountry.com

Pathways to Emancipation in East Africa

Author(s): MIchelle Greenfield-Liebst, Felicitas Becker
Published in: ORE Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of African History, 2021
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Voor de dekolonisering van de openbare ruimte in het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest: Een reflectiekader en aanbevelingen

Author(s): Margot Luyckfasseel
Published in: 2022
Publisher: urban.brussels