Introduction.- The Field as an Archive.- Recherche des Sources en Afrique Equatoriale.- Moments of Sharing: Fieldwork in Ethiopia (1988-2008).- Rethinking Periodisations.- Which Middle Ages for Ethiopia?.- Ousanas, A Ruler at the Crossroad of Aksum's History / (RIÉ 186 = DAE 8).- The First Muslims in Africa? Sources and Methods Regarding the Hijra to Abyssinia.

- Questioning the Archive.- Islamic Legal Documents and Social Histories of Muslims in Eritrea and Ethiopia- Missionary Sources and African History: the Case of two Swedish Lutheran Missions.- Military Campaigning Abroad and Women's Writing in Colonial Eritrea (1912-1918).- The Private and the Public in the Colonial Archive.- Colonial Encounters and Land Tenure in Early Italian Rule in Africa. A Critical Enquiry into Recently Rediscovered Personal Papers of Leopoldo Franchetti.- The "Reaction from Below": Colonial Archives, Communist Propaganda and Messianic Movements in French Equatorial Africa.- Biographies and Autobiographies as Epistemological Challenges.

- Songs, Poems and Left-Wing "Heroes": The Soft Power of the Sudanese Left.- Somali Biography and Autobiography in the 20th Century.- Biography, Ethnography and Education in Colonial Libya. Panetta's Papers at Florence State Archives.- Visualizing Africa's Past.- Imaginaries and Self-representations: Coins as a Source for African History.- Photography of Colonial Libya in the former Fototeca del Museo Africano: a Provisional Appraisal.- Historical Sources and Political Trajectories.

- Building the State in Eritrea: Notes on Epistemologies and Sources.- Imagining the Trajectories of the 2018 Peace Agreement Between Eritrea and Ethiopia.- Sources and Research on Liberation and Revolutionary Movements in the Horn of Africa.