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Africa

The journal of the International African Institute
Africa remains the main UK-based, international journal publishing on the whole of Africa, and in all disciplines of the humanities, social sciences and environmental sciences, while retaining its historic core orientation to ethnographically rich, historically informed knowledge of life on the ground in Africa.

African Affairs

The journal of the Royal African Society.
Funded in 1901, it is one of the oldest journal concerning current events in Africa. Published 4 tiems a year, it contains articles on a wide range of subjects on contemporary events in Africa.
The Journal is published by Oxford University Press.


African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal

This is the first academic journal that directly addresses the needs of scholars working in the important field of African Diaspora studies. It advances the analytical and interrogative discourses that constitute this distinctive interdisciplinary study of the deterritorialised and transnational nature of the African and Black Diaspora.


Africa Confidential and Africa-Asia Confidential

Africa Confidential is one of the longest-established specialist publications on Africa, with a considerable reputation for being first with the in depth news on significant political, economic and security developments across the continent.Our track record owes much to our comprehensive network of local correspondents and the connections that we’ve built up throughout Africa since we started publishing back in 1960.
Africa-Asia Confidential looks at the relationship between Africa and Asia


African Journal of Business of Economic Research

A peer-reviewed academic journal, which made its debut in January 2010, has come our with a combined volume 2 and 3. The journal is published three times a year. Also 1-2 books are to be published each year from the contributions to the journal. For details of the current
edition, please see: Volume 2&3, November 2006

African Journal of Political Science
AJPS is a peer-reviewed Journal published twice a year on behalf of the African Association of Political Science(AAPS). It covers exciting and topical issues that, not matter how often they are broached, analyzed and interrogated, cannot vanish from contemporary Afrocentric scholarship for as long as the African condition or crisis remains.

Africa Report
A new Quarterly Journal, part of the Jeune Afrique team based in Paris, that provides accurate, incisive and comprehensive reports on all African countries. This is a vital read for academics, policy makers, and business people working in or on Africa. Many leading figures such as Nelson Mandela, K Y Amoako, Trevor Manuel, Gordon Brown have contributed to the journal.


Development Southern Africa
Development Southern Africa offers a platform for expressing views and encouraging debate among development specialists, policy decision makers, scholars and students in the wider professional fraternity and especially in southern Africa. The journal publishes articles that reflect innovative thinking on key development challenges and policy issues facing South Africa and other countries in the southern African region.

Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies

The purpose of the journal is to foster a better understanding of journalism, media studies, and mass communication as research disciplines in the comparative context of Africa and the South, and to build links between these academic fields and media professions in these contexts. The journal's focus is on Africa, but its academic interest and scope is transnational.


Journal of African Cultural Studies
The Journal of African Cultural Studies is an international journal providing a forum for perceptions of African culture from inside and outside Africa, with a special commitment to African scholarship. It focuses on dimensions of African culture including African literatures both oral and written, performance arts, visual arts, music, the role of the media, the relationship between culture and power, as well as issues within such fields as popular culture in Africa, sociolinguistic topics of cultural interest, and culture and gender.

Journal of Contemporary African Studies

JCAS is an international journal providing a forum for perceptions of African culture from inside and outside Africa, with a special commitment to African scholarship. It focuses on dimensions of African culture including African literatures both oral and written, performance arts, visual arts, music, the role of the media, the relationship between culture and power, as well as issues within such fields as popular culture in Africa, sociolinguistic topics of cultural interest, and culture and gender.

Journal of Eastern African Studies
It aims to promote fresh scholarly enquiry on the region from within the humanities and the social sciences, and to encourage work that communicates across disciplinary boundaries. Its broad coverage will encompass archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies, development studies, economics, environmental studies, geography, history, international relations, literatures and languages, political economy, politics, social policy and sociology. With its multidisciplinary focus, the Journal of Eastern African Studies will complement Azania, the original journal of the BIEA and the primary peer-reviewed publication for eastern African archaeology.

 

Journal of Modern African Studies

offers a quarterly survey of developments in modern African politics and society. Its main emphasis is on current issues in African politics, economies, societies and international relations. It is intended not only for students and academic specialists, but also for general readers and practitioners with a concern for modern Africa, living and working both inside and outside the continent.


Journal of North African Studies

The journal is a forum for scholars of and from the region. Its contents cover both country-based and regional themes which range from historical topics to sociological, anthropological, economic, diplomatic and other issues. It is the first academic journal in English to analyse the historic and current affairs of what has become an important and coherent region of the Mediterranean basin which is also linked to the Middle East and Africa.

Journal of Southern African Studies

The Journal of Southern African Studies is an international publication for work of high academic quality on issues of interest and concern in the region of Southern Africa. It aims at generating fresh scholarly enquiry and rigorous exposition in the many different disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. It seeks to encourage interdisciplinary analysis, strong comparative perspectives and research that reflect new theoretical or methodological approaches.

Politikon

South African Journal of Political Studies

It focuses primarily on South African politics, but not exclusively so. Over the years the journal has published articles by some of the world' leading political scientists, including Arend Lijphart, Samuel Huntingdon, and Philippe Schmitter.

Politique Africaine

Published by Editions Karthala, African Politics is an interdisciplinary journal of political analysis in Africa, in French. Created in the early 1980s at odds with the dominant approaches, it has emerged in France and abroad, as a reference publication for the whole international community of Africanists.

Postamble
It is a postgraduate online journal of the Faculty of Humanities located in the Centre for African Studies and published bi-annually online. Postable is committed to featuring original post graduate student work of a high academic standard which is of value to the promotion of multi-disciplinary study of Africa within the university environment.Submissions cover a wide range of humanities, arts and social sciences topics involving the study of Africa. Postamble is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes general, as well as thematically focussed special issues.


Review of African Political Economy

ROAPE is a refereed journal committed to encouraging high quality research and fostering excellence in the understanding of African political economy.

Southscan

Now in its 22nd year, is a print and online service producing bi-weekly and monthly periodicals focusing on Southern and Central Africa. We are an authoritative source on our region; our analysts and correspondents present impartial reports on current economic, political and security issues from key African centres and from Brussels, London and Washington.

South African Journal of International Affairs
Now celebrating its 15th year of publication, the South African Journal of International Affairs (SAJIA) is going commercial.
The South African Journal of International Affairs (SAJIA) is the flagship publication of the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), an independent, non-governmental think-tank based in Johannesburg.