The ''African Historical Review'' is a biannual

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covering the

history of Africa Archaic humans Out of Africa 1, emerged out of Africa between 0.5 and 1.8 million years ago. This was followed by the Recent African origin of modern humans, emergence of anatomically modern humans, modern humans (''Homo sapiens'') in East A ...

. It was established in 1969 as ''Kleio: A Journal of Historical Studies from Africa'' and obtained its current title in 2007. It is published by

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in collaboration with UNISA Press. The

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are Greg Cuthbertson (

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), Paul Landau (

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), Henriëtte Lubbe (University of South Africa), and Russel Viljoen (University of South Africa).

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