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The Cahiers d’Études africaines, founded in 1960, have ever since favored the publication of previously unpublished articles, original investigations along with confirmed or emerging theoretical contributions.  While encouraging interdisciplinary perspectives, the journal concentrates on anthropological and historical research on Africa and societies linked to Africa throughout the world. The publication of articles in French and English contributes to the international recognition of the journal.
Issues before 2000 are freely accessible on persee.fr. Subscriptions are managed by École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

Latest issue
257 | 2025
Imaginaires de la liberté, expériences d’émancipation

This issue explores imaginaries of freedom and experiences of emancipation where the quest for individualization and collective aspirations are intertwined. What are the hopes of young Ghanaian women who head off to Accra to sell their labour on the markets? Why is armed struggle used as a tool of emancipation in Mali? How are political languages, protest experiences and State-building articulated in Somaliland? Ethnographic cases and theoretical reflections reveal the extent to which ideals and hopes of freedom, as much as experiences and actions of emancipation, benefit from being studied as closely as possible to real practices, in the ordinary course of life. They also take into account the weight of past legacies, such as those of slavery and colonization, and the neoliberal dynamics present in the processes of socio-political and existential openness.

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