Nsibidi: A Journal of African Heritage invites submissions from scholars, museum professionals, archivists, and heritage managers to submit papers to the special issue of the Journal with the theme Reimagining “Modern” Heritage in Africa, focusing on a critically under-theorized and rapidly disappearing subset of the continent’s history: the Modern Heritage of Africa.

The Journal invites scholars and practitioners to consider questions such as:

• How do we interpret the “authenticity” and integrity of modernist structures when their spatial meaning and utility have been entirely reimagined by local communities?
• How do modernist structures and infrastructural networks interface with the spiritual geography and traditional land-use practices of their contexts?
• How have communities indigenized colonial spaces and technologies through ritual, informal urbanism, or adaptive reuse?
• What do oral histories and archival research reveal about the indigenous labor, vernacular craftsmanship, and lived experiences that built and sustained these modern spaces?
  
• Abstract Submission Deadline: May 15, 2026
  Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2026
  Final Paper Submission Deadline: August 15, 2026
  More information and submissions here