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Africa Today Africa Today publishes peer-reviewed scholarly articles, book reviews, and short features on topics related to contemporary Africa and its diasporas. It seeks to be a venue for interdisciplinary approaches, diverse perspectives, and original research across the arts, humanities, and social sciences that is accessible to a multidisciplinary readership. Africa Today welcomes contributions from scholars across the globe, and especially from Africa-based colleagues.
The journal welcomes submissions of individual manuscripts for open issues as well special issues focused on particular topics. Past special issues have covered themes such as the construction of political legitimacy in Mali, processes of refuge-seeking, ethnographies of postcrisis situations, politics and decolonization, and religious entrepreneurship. Africa Today was established in 1954. It has been edited and published four times a year at Indiana University since 1999. Please review our submission guidelines and contact the Managing Editor or any of the editors with any questions you might have about publishing in Africa Today.
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Volume 61, Number 2, Winter 2014Editorial Board
Editors
Eileen Julien
Maria Grosz-Ngaté
Lauren M. MacLean
Patrick McNaughton
Samuel Obeng
Book Review Editor
A.B. Assensoh
Managing Editor
Hassan Wahab
Assistant to the Managing Editors
Claire E. Waggoner
Editorial Consultants
Olufemi Babarinde, American Graduate School of International Development
Charles Becker, University of Colorado, Boulder
Catherine Boone, University of Texas, Austin
Dennis Brutus, University of Pittsburgh
Michael Chege, University of Florida, Gainesville
Marshall Clough, University of Northern Colorado
Jendayi E. Frazer, Harvard University
Kennel Jackson, Jr., Stanford University
Williard R. Johnson, MIT
Elizabeth Landis, Attorney, New York
Gottfried O. Lang (ret.), University of Colorado, Boulder
Wilbert LeMelle, Phelps Stokes Fund
John Marcum, University of California, Santa Cruz
Jonathan N. Moyo, University of Zimbabwe
Binaifer Nowrojee, Human Rights Watch
Julius Nyang’oro, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Oyeronke Oyewumi, University of California, Santa Barbara
Charles Piot, Duke University
Donald Rothchild, University of California, Davis
Nancy J. Schmidt, Indiana University
Timothy Shaw, Dalhousie University
W. A. E. Skurnik, University of Colorado, Boulder
Timothy Smith, Center on Corporate Response, New York
Karamo Sonko, African Development Bank
Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University
Ronald Walters, Howard University
Sheldon Weeks, University of Botswana
Peter Weiss, American Committee on Africa, New York
James B. Wolf, University of Colorado, Denver
