Paul lovejoy biography

Paul Lovejoy is a Canadian historian in African history and African diaspora history.
As Distinguished Research Professor and Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History at York University, I have published over 40 books and 150 articles.
Paul Lovejoy is a Canadian historian in African history and African diaspora history.

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Summary:

The SHADD Biography Project focuses on the enforced migration of “Atlantic Africans,” that is enslaved Africans in the Atlantic world during the era of the slave trade, through an examination of biographical accounts of individuals born in Africa who were enslaved in the 16-19th century. The focus is on testimony, the voices of individual Africans. The Project is named for Mary Ann Shadd, abolitionist, Canadian, first woman newspaper editor (Voice of the Fugitive) in North America, in recognition of her political and intellectual commitment to document the Underground Railroad and resistance to slavery in North America. SHADD also identifies the website Studies in the History of the African Diaspora---Documents (www.harriettubmaninstitute.ca/SHADD), which houses facsimile and transcribed versions of testimonies. The SHADD Biography Project seeks to use an online digital repository of autobiographical testimonies and biographical data of Atlantic Africans to analyze patterns in the slave trade from West Africa, specifically in terms of where individuals came from, why th

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Paul Lovejoy

Accounting in the Central Sudan in the Early Nineteenth Century

African Economic History, 2013

Documents relating to accounting in Muslim West Africa are rare.1 In this article, we include the... more Documents relating to accounting in Muslim West Africa are rare.1 In this article, we include the surviving accounts of Captain Hugh Clapperton, who travelled to the Sokoto Caliphate and Bomo, first in 1824 and then to Oyo and the Sokoto Caliphate in 1827 (Appendix A). Clapperton's papers are important in terms of what they reveal about methods of accounting and prices, and mechanisms for recovering outstanding debts. These accounts and related documents from the Clapperton papers provide evidence of the use of Arabic in keeping accounts in the Sokoto Caliphate and Bomo. There is also a budget that reveals the cost of living for a period of three weeks in Sokoto for a household of a visiting dignitary, which is roughly similar to that of a prosperous merchant. There is other material that provides additional evidence of the cost of daily living along the route

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By Mariana Candido, Toyin Falola, and Toby Green, co-editors, African Economic History

African Economic History salutes Professor Paul E. Lovejoy for the thirty-plus years of service he has given to the journal. In that time, Paul has performed wondrous feats in maintaining the vitality of a discipline which is fundamentally relevant to so many areas of African Studies, but which had been allowed to wither on the academic vine. The continued existence of the journal is a standing example of Professor Lovejoy’s outstanding service to the discipline of economic history and the field of African history in general. We will miss his contributions and editorial oversight so very much, but are also so grateful for all that he has done.

With Paul Lovejoy’s retirement as an editor, we are delighted to announce the appointment of two new editors: George Bob-Milliar, of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, and Melchisedek Chétima, Banting Fellow at York University.

Thejournal is also pleased to announce that we are now accepting submissions i