Abstract
What does maritime history look like in an African setting? What insights can African case studies offer to the rapidly expanding field of maritime history? These questions inspired the authors of the essays in this collection to travel the often-neglected waters of African maritime history. Despite the rise of European, Asian and American historical research linked to seas and rivers, Africanists have rarely identified themselves as maritime researchers. More than two decades ago, the French scholar Jean-Pierre Chauveau tellingly entitled his literature review of maritime topics in Africa, “Is an African Maritime History Possible?”...