Category
page 1Historians of Africa
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)

Amadou Hampâté Bâ
Malian writer, historian and ethnologist
Ibn 'Abd al-Hakam
Egyptian historian (801-871)
Djibril Tamsir Niane
Senegalese and Guinean writer and historian (1932–2021)
Ali Mazrui
Kenyan academic (1933–2014)
Nwando Achebe
historian

Basil Davidson
British journalist and historian (1914–2010)
Richard Pankhurst
British-Ethiopian scholar (1927–2017)

Jan Vansina
Belgian historian and anthropologist (1929–2017)
Mohammed Harbi
French-Algerian historian

Endre Sík
Hungarian historian and politician (1891-1978)

Christopher Ehret
American historian and linguist

Kenneth Onwuka Dike
Nigerian historian (1917-1983)
Toyin Falola
Nigerian historian (born 1953)
John Henrik Clarke
American historian and writer (1915–1998)
David Van Reybrouck
cultural historian
Adrian Hastings
Roman Catholic priest, historian and author (1929–2001)
Mahmud Kati
Malian historian
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
Puerto Rican historian, writer and activist (1874–1938)
Abraham Polak
Israeli historian (1910-1970)
Gérard Prunier
French academic
Yosef Ben-Jochannan
American historian and writer (1918-2015)
Saburi Biobaku
Nigerian historian (1918–2003)
Mario Azevedo
Mozambican historian

Martin Meredith
British historian, journalist and biographer
Juliette Bessis
Tunisian historian and academic (1925-2017)
Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
French historian & scholar
Joseph C. Miller
historian
A. G. Hopkins
British historian (born 1938)
ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Rafiʿi
Egyptian historian (1889-1966)
Bill Freund
American historian
Frederick Cooper
American historian
Bernard Lugan
French historian
Edmund Abaka
professor of African history, University of Miami
René Lemarchand
French political scientist

Stephen Ellis
British historian (1953–2015)

Hakim Adi
British historian
Robert Smith
British historian of Africa (1919-2009)
John Donnelly Fage
British historian; (1921-2002)
Jean Suret-Canale
French historian (1921–2007)
Atieno Odhiambo
Kenyan historian
Mamadou Diouf
African history professor

H. B. Thom
South African historian (1905–1983)

Abd al-Qadir dan Tafa
Sokoto historian
Anatole-Joseph Toulotte
French White Fathers missionary
Runoko Rashidi
American historian
André Adam
French ethnologist (1911-1991)
Tudor Parfitt
British historian, writer, traveller, broadcaster, adventurer
Philip D. Curtin
American historian (1922-2009)
Peter Stearns
American historian (born 1936)
Roland Oliver
historian (1923–2014)
Scholastique Dianzinga
Congolese historian
Thomas Tlou
Motswana politician (1932-2010)

Marika Sherwood
historian (1937–2025)
Tore Linné Eriksen
Norwegian historian
Nehemia Levtzion
Israeli historian (1935-2003)
Kwame Arhin
Ghanian historian and politician (1935-2015)