Vincent Hiribarren
Biographic Data
| ID | 315136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent Hiribarren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent |
| FAMILY NAME | Hiribarren |
| SIGNATURE | HIRIBARREN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8742-9576 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Kassanda (Alain) (écrit et réalisé par) Coconut Head Generation (France, Nigeria, 2023, 87 min)
Les migrated archives ou l’art de cacher le passé colonial au Royaume-Uni
Cet article examine la manière dont plus de 600 000 documents produits par les différentes administrations britanniques pendant l’époque coloniale ont été dissimulés au grand public et aux chercheur·e·s depuis les années 1940 jusqu’aux années 2000. Ces documents permettent-ils pour autant d’enrichir les connaissances sur la décolonisation de l’empire britannique ? Ils éclairent d’abord sur la manière dont l’histoire impériale du Royaume-Uni est e…
On the Importance of Place
It is the second time I am writing an editorial for the Journal of West African History and, once again, I am writing about a murder. This one took place at Michigan State University on February 13, 2023. An individual—who committed suicide shortly afterwards—killed three students (Arielle Anderson, Brian Fraser, and Alexandria Verner) while injuring five others. For this editorial team, Michigan State University is not like any other university.…
Hicks Dan. — The Brutish Museums
Le jeu de mots est assez transparent pour ne pas avoir besoin d’être traduit en français. Le British Museum est brutal : résultat de l’accumulation d’œuvres d’art volées et acquises légalement à travers le monde, le British Museum est devenu en partie grâce à cette brutalité l’un des musées les plus célèbres de la planète. L’auteur, Dan Hicks, n’y va pas par quatre chemins : le British Museum, comme de nombreux musées du Royaume-Uni, perpétue une…
The Origins of Kingdoms and Empires in Precolonial Nigeria
This chapter offers a summary of the main academic debates surrounding state formation in precolonial Nigeria. It provides a multidisciplinary discussion on the evolution of the scholarship on statehood’s origins in different polities now part of modern-day Nigeria (Benin, Borgu, Borno, Hausa cities, Oyo). Not surprisingly, the quest for origins always tends to be teleological, as one needs to understand the golden age of one polity by examining …
Tournant archivistique et tournant numérique en Afrique
Historien et enseignant au Kings’s College de Londres, Vincent Hiribarren a soutenu une thèse sur l’histoire du Bornou à l’Université de Leeds en 2012, publié en 2017 sous le titre A History of Borno: Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State (Hiribarren 2017). Ses travaux s’inscrivent dans une perspective de longue durée pour retracer l’histoire de cette région ouest-africaine, située dans le nord-est du Nigéria, de l’époque moderne…
Viragem arquivística e viragem digital em África
Historiador e professor no Kings’s College de Londres, Vincent Hiribarren defendeu uma tese de doutoramento sobre a história do Bornu na Universidade de Leeds em 2012, publicada em 2017 com o título A History of Borno: Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State (Hiribarren 2017). Os trabalhos que realizou inscrevem-se numa longa perspectiva temporal a fim de traçar a história desta região do Oeste africano, situada no nordeste da Nigé…
African History Will Make Us Breathe
Editorial| September 01 2020 African History Will Make Us Breathe Vincent Hiribarren Vincent Hiribarren Editor King's College London Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of West African History (2020) 6 (2): v–viii. https://doi.org/10.14321/jwestafrihist.6.2.000v Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon To…
Archives, the Digital Turn, and Governance in Africa
With the rise of information technology, an increasing proportion of public African archives are being digitized and made accessible on the internet. The same is being done to a certain extent with private archives too. As much as the new technologies are raising enthusiasm, they have prompted discussion among researchers and archivists, on subjects ranging from matters of intellectual property to sovereignty and governance. Digital archiving dis…
Guns and Society in Colonial Nigeria
The Ottoman Scramble for Africa
The Ottoman Scramble for Africa challenges our assumption that the Ottoman Empire was not an important diplomatic power at the end of the nineteenth century. It was actually the opposite. Mostafa Minawi shows in this study that Istanbul was an expansionist force in the Lake Chad basin, the Eastern Sahara and Western Arabia in the 1880s and 1890s. The ‘Sick Man of Europe’ was actually playing on the same ground as the other European powers and, so…
Leye Adenle. Lagos Lady
Why Researchers Should Publish Archive Inventories Online
This short report gives the rationale behind the creation of the website https://archivescolonialesbrazzaville.wordpress.com/ , dedicated to the colonial archives of French Equatorial Africa in January 2015. It is argued that researchers and archivists can build highly useful websites in Africa even with a limited Internet connection
Mapping Print, Connecting Cultures
This article discusses the potential of ‘historical bibliometric’ methodologies for understanding past cultures and offers a vision for how historical bibliometric research might be conducted on a comparative and global scale. Drawing on conceptual work being undertaken at the Western Sydney University in order to further develop and extend the widely respected ‘French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe’ (FBTEE) database project, it explores how …
Tom Burgis, The Looting Machine. Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa’s Wealth
site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement
Le syndrome Foccart
Le Syndrome Foccart examines the official and unofficial links woven by French politicians and the ruling elite of former French colonies in Africa between 1959 and 2011. In this book, Jean-Pierre
A European and African Joint-Venture
This article engages with existing scholarship that explores how colonial knowledge was constructed. Focusing on the region of Borno it will highlight the ways in which European officials collaborated with African elites when writing official histories of the region (1902–1960). These exchanges were indicative of both the ruling Kanemi dynasty’s efforts to assert their authority in Borno, as well as the efforts made by foreign colonial officials …
A European and African Joint-Venture
This article engages with existing scholarship that explores how colonial knowledge was constructed. Focusing on the region of Borno it will highlight the ways in which European officials collaborated with African elites when writing official histories of the region (1902–1960). These exchanges were indicative of both the ruling Kanemi dynasty’s efforts to assert their authority in Borno, as well as the efforts made by foreign colonial officials …
Why Researchers Should Publish Archive Inventories Online
This short report gives the rationale behind the creation of the website https://archivescolonialesbrazzaville.wordpress.com/ , dedicated to the colonial archives of French Equatorial Africa in January 2015. It is argued that researchers and archivists can build highly useful websites in Africa even with a limited Internet connection
Tom Burgis, The Looting Machine. Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa’s Wealth
site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement
The Ottoman Scramble for Africa
The Ottoman Scramble for Africa challenges our assumption that the Ottoman Empire was not an important diplomatic power at the end of the nineteenth century. It was actually the opposite. Mostafa Minawi shows in this study that Istanbul was an expansionist force in the Lake Chad basin, the Eastern Sahara and Western Arabia in the 1880s and 1890s. The ‘Sick Man of Europe’ was actually playing on the same ground as the other European powers and, so…
Mapping Print, Connecting Cultures
This article discusses the potential of ‘historical bibliometric’ methodologies for understanding past cultures and offers a vision for how historical bibliometric research might be conducted on a comparative and global scale. Drawing on conceptual work being undertaken at the Western Sydney University in order to further develop and extend the widely respected ‘French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe’ (FBTEE) database project, it explores how …
A European and African Joint-Venture
This article engages with existing scholarship that explores how colonial knowledge was constructed. Focusing on the region of Borno it will highlight the ways in which European officials collaborated with African elites when writing official histories of the region (1902–1960). These exchanges were indicative of both the ruling Kanemi dynasty’s efforts to assert their authority in Borno, as well as the efforts made by foreign colonial officials …
Le syndrome Foccart
Le Syndrome Foccart examines the official and unofficial links woven by French politicians and the ruling elite of former French colonies in Africa between 1959 and 2011. In this book, Jean-Pierre
Why Researchers Should Publish Archive Inventories Online
This short report gives the rationale behind the creation of the website https://archivescolonialesbrazzaville.wordpress.com/ , dedicated to the colonial archives of French Equatorial Africa in January 2015. It is argued that researchers and archivists can build highly useful websites in Africa even with a limited Internet connection
Mapping Print, Connecting Cultures
This article discusses the potential of ‘historical bibliometric’ methodologies for understanding past cultures and offers a vision for how historical bibliometric research might be conducted on a comparative and global scale. Drawing on conceptual work being undertaken at the Western Sydney University in order to further develop and extend the widely respected ‘French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe’ (FBTEE) database project, it explores how …
Tom Burgis, The Looting Machine. Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa’s Wealth
site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement
The Ottoman Scramble for Africa
The Ottoman Scramble for Africa challenges our assumption that the Ottoman Empire was not an important diplomatic power at the end of the nineteenth century. It was actually the opposite. Mostafa Minawi shows in this study that Istanbul was an expansionist force in the Lake Chad basin, the Eastern Sahara and Western Arabia in the 1880s and 1890s. The ‘Sick Man of Europe’ was actually playing on the same ground as the other European powers and, so…
Leye Adenle. Lagos Lady
Guns and Society in Colonial Nigeria
Archives, the Digital Turn, and Governance in Africa
With the rise of information technology, an increasing proportion of public African archives are being digitized and made accessible on the internet. The same is being done to a certain extent with private archives too. As much as the new technologies are raising enthusiasm, they have prompted discussion among researchers and archivists, on subjects ranging from matters of intellectual property to sovereignty and governance. Digital archiving dis…
Tournant archivistique et tournant numérique en Afrique
Historien et enseignant au Kings’s College de Londres, Vincent Hiribarren a soutenu une thèse sur l’histoire du Bornou à l’Université de Leeds en 2012, publié en 2017 sous le titre A History of Borno: Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State (Hiribarren 2017). Ses travaux s’inscrivent dans une perspective de longue durée pour retracer l’histoire de cette région ouest-africaine, située dans le nord-est du Nigéria, de l’époque moderne…
Viragem arquivística e viragem digital em África
Historiador e professor no Kings’s College de Londres, Vincent Hiribarren defendeu uma tese de doutoramento sobre a história do Bornu na Universidade de Leeds em 2012, publicada em 2017 com o título A History of Borno: Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State (Hiribarren 2017). Os trabalhos que realizou inscrevem-se numa longa perspectiva temporal a fim de traçar a história desta região do Oeste africano, situada no nordeste da Nigé…
African History Will Make Us Breathe
Editorial| September 01 2020 African History Will Make Us Breathe Vincent Hiribarren Vincent Hiribarren Editor King's College London Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of West African History (2020) 6 (2): v–viii. https://doi.org/10.14321/jwestafrihist.6.2.000v Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon To…
The Origins of Kingdoms and Empires in Precolonial Nigeria
This chapter offers a summary of the main academic debates surrounding state formation in precolonial Nigeria. It provides a multidisciplinary discussion on the evolution of the scholarship on statehood’s origins in different polities now part of modern-day Nigeria (Benin, Borgu, Borno, Hausa cities, Oyo). Not surprisingly, the quest for origins always tends to be teleological, as one needs to understand the golden age of one polity by examining …
On the Importance of Place
It is the second time I am writing an editorial for the Journal of West African History and, once again, I am writing about a murder. This one took place at Michigan State University on February 13, 2023. An individual—who committed suicide shortly afterwards—killed three students (Arielle Anderson, Brian Fraser, and Alexandria Verner) while injuring five others. For this editorial team, Michigan State University is not like any other university.…
Hicks Dan. — The Brutish Museums
Le jeu de mots est assez transparent pour ne pas avoir besoin d’être traduit en français. Le British Museum est brutal : résultat de l’accumulation d’œuvres d’art volées et acquises légalement à travers le monde, le British Museum est devenu en partie grâce à cette brutalité l’un des musées les plus célèbres de la planète. L’auteur, Dan Hicks, n’y va pas par quatre chemins : le British Museum, comme de nombreux musées du Royaume-Uni, perpétue une…
Les migrated archives ou l’art de cacher le passé colonial au Royaume-Uni
Cet article examine la manière dont plus de 600 000 documents produits par les différentes administrations britanniques pendant l’époque coloniale ont été dissimulés au grand public et aux chercheur·e·s depuis les années 1940 jusqu’aux années 2000. Ces documents permettent-ils pour autant d’enrichir les connaissances sur la décolonisation de l’empire britannique ? Ils éclairent d’abord sur la manière dont l’histoire impériale du Royaume-Uni est e…
Kassanda (Alain) (écrit et réalisé par) Coconut Head Generation (France, Nigeria, 2023, 87 min)
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