Aims and scope

From 2022, this journal no longer accepts submissions. Please submit to South African Historical Journal.

The Journal of Natal and Zulu History (JNZH) publishes double-blind peer reviewed original articles and a book forum focused on political, social, economic and cultural change in a region currently called KwaZulu-Natal, along the south-eastern coastal region of Africa, from pre-colonial times to the present. Themes range widely but address the unique features of this geographical and social terrain as a site of encounter, settlement and mobility, as well as its influences further afield. We welcome contributions that investigate politics, production and private life; migration and identity; religion and culture; gender and sexuality: labour and class; institutions and biography; as well on land, law, love, and violence. We invite new interpretations of history and the use of innovative sources, theories and methodologies that generate new knowledge and provoke fresh assessments of established perspectives. The journal is specific to disciplines of History and cognate fields, with the understanding that contributing researchers employ theories, research design and interpretative methods that often cross with other humanities and social science disciplines.