Current History

In our May issue, @drjustinpearce surveys 50 years of strife in Angola and Mozambique. online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

In our annual Africa issue, Basile Ndjio examines the history of LGBT+ exclusion and resistance in Cameroon. online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

In our new Africa issue, Moses Khisa traces Uganda’s drift toward dynastic autocracy. online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

In our annual Africa issue, Patrick Desplat explains what drove Madagascar’s Gen Z uprising. online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

Enjoy free access (for a limited time) to this essay by Ebenezer Obadare in our May issue, on Africa’s debate over democracy: online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

More in our new issue: John J. Chin on the Sahel coup belt’s spread, Ebenezer Obadare on the African democracy debate, and Jody Benjamin’s review of a book on 17th-century struggles with Portuguese colonial rule in a West Atlantic port town. online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

Our annual Africa issue is out! With Patrick Desplat on Madagascar’s Gen Z uprising, Moses Khisa on Uganda’s autocratic drift, Basile Ndjio on LGBT+ exclusion and resistance in Cameroon, @drjustinpearce on 50 years of strife in Angola and Mozambique… online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

A decade after my last contribution to @currenthistory1 I have a new article on how the habits of ruling parties & the possibilities for opposition in #Angola & #Mozambique are constrained by history 50 years after independence. (Not open access: I can share a copy on request.)

In our annual South Asia issue, Šumit Ganguly considers the legacies of Indira Gandhi's Emergency in a review of Srinath Raghavan's new book on the late prime minister's years in power in the 1970s and early 1980s. online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

In our April South Asia issue, Anirudh Krishna @DukeSanford examines the key role of blocked social mobility in a wave of Gen Z protests in the region and beyond, proposing potential solutions. online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

In our April South Asia issue, @sshneiderman and Salina Dolmo Lama explain how Nepal’s 2025 Gen Z protests toppled a regime, from the key role of social media to the movement's dilemmas on issues such as hierarchy and corruption. online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

In our annual South Asia issue, Magnus Marsden details the long history of Afghans’ now-imperiled presence in Pakistan and their connective role across the region and beyond. online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

In our new issue, Xu Peng (@SOASDevelopment) explains why China’s interventions in Myanmar's armed conflicts are limited and focused on the border region. online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

In our annual South Asia issue, Kenneth Bo Nielsen and @alfgunvald examine the linkages between state-sanctioned communal violence and Hindu nationalist legislation and ideology in India. online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

For a limited time, enjoy free access to this essay by Atreyee Sen in our annual South Asia issue—on the growing real-world impact of online anger, as seen in the recent toppling of governments in Bangladesh and Nepal. online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

More in our April issue: @sshneiderman and Salina Dolmo Lama on Nepal’s Gen Z protests, Anirudh Krishna on addressing Gen Z's economic grievances, Atreyee Sen on digital rage and protest culture, and Šumit Ganguly on legacies of Indira Gandhi's Emergency. online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

Our annual South Asia issue is out! With Kenneth Bo Nielsen and @alfgunvald on violence and Hindu nationalist statecraft, Xu Peng on China’s selective interventions in Myanmar, Magnus Marsden on Afghans’ imperiled presence in Pakistan… online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

In our annual Europe issue, Monica Black reviews a new history of the Weimar Republic’s collapse. "The question of when the breakdown happened has relevance, and not just historically, but here and now." online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

In our new Europe issue, Manos Matsaganis assesses Greece’s uneven recovery from its catastrophic fiscal crisis and experiment with populist governance a decade ago. online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…

In our annual Europe issue, Josip Kešić and @jwduyvendak explain the rise and normalization of nativism in the Netherlands, across the political spectrum. online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory…