Doing Conceptual History in Africa

Axel Fleisch is a Professor of African Studies at the University of Helsinki. His focus is southern Africa, including African languages and historical linguistics. He is the author of Lucazi Grammar: A Morphosemantic Analysis (2000) and the co-editor of Grandmother's Footsteps: Oral Tradition and South-East Angolan Narratives on the Colonial Encounter (1999).

Rhiannon Stephens is an Assistant Professor of African History at Columbia University. Her work focuses on East Africa, particularly Uganda. She is the author of A History of African Motherhood: The Case of Uganda, 700-1900 (2013) and has published work in the Journal of African History and Past and Present.