Anne Hugon (born 1965) is a French historian specialising in the history of African exploration.

Career

Anne Hugon has worked for several years on the history of European exploration of Africa. She taught at the University of Lyon II and wrote a thesis on missionaries in

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in the early 1990s. She is currently a

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at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University where she is teaching 19th–20th century African history. She is also a member of the , a joint interdisciplinary research unit associating with the

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. Her studies and research themes on Africa include colonial history of Ghana, social history, history of colonisation, history of women and gender, history of medicine and history of cultural changes. She has authored several articles and books on the subject. She wrote for the " Découvertes Gallimard" collection, an illustrated pocket book published in 1991 and has been translated into ten languages, including English. The book has been adapted into a documentary film titled ("Mystery of the Sources of the

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") in 2003. A sequel to this book, , released in 1994, has also been made into a documentary film with the same title. In addition to articles and books authored by herself, Hugon has also translated the English explorer

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's account of her travels into French.

Selected publications

* ''L'Afrique des explorateurs : Vers les sources du Nil'', collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 117), série Histoire. Éditions Gallimard, 1991 ** US edition – '' The Exploration of Africa: From Cairo to the Cape'', "

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" series. Harry N. Abrams, 1993 ** UK edition – ''The Exploration of Africa: From Cairo to the Cape'', ' New Horizons' series. Thames & Hudson, 1993 * '' Vers Tombouctou : L'Afrique des explorateurs II'', collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 216), série Histoire. Éditions Gallimard, 1994 * ''Introduction à l'histoire de l'Afrique contemporaine'', Armand Colin, 1998 * ''Histoire des femmes en situation coloniale : Afrique et Asie, XX^e siècle'', Karthala, 2004 * ''Un protestantisme africain au XIX^e siècle : L'implantation du méthodisme en Gold Coast (Ghana), 1835–1874'', Karthala, 2007 *''Être mère en situation coloniale (Gold Coast, années 1910-1950)''. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020. ;Translation *

, ''Une odyssée africaine : une exploratrice victorienne en Afrique de l'ouest, 1893–95'', Phébus, 1992

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hugon, Anne 1965 births French Africanists Historians of Africa 20th-century French historians French women historians 21st-century French historians Living people 20th-century French women 21st-century French women