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Black Short Fiction and Folklore

Black Short Fiction and Folklore from Africa and the African Diaspora is the most comprehensive collection yet created of stories from Africa and the African Diaspora. When complete, it will offer more than 8,000 short stories and folktales, ranging thematically from oral traditions that date back many hundreds of years to contemporary tales of modern life. In addition to these works, the database includes complete runs of selected literary magazines, such as Kyk-Over-Al and The Beacon. <!–Black Short Fiction and Folklore from Africa and the African Diaspora currently features over 9,300 short stories and more than 102,000 pages.–>

Africa Bibliography

Africa Bibliography is produced annually and includes over 5,000 scholarly items published in the previous year. The Bibliography focuses on the social sciences, humanities and arts, environmental studies, and includes some items from the medical, biological, and natural sciences.

African and Black Diaspora

African and Black Diaspora is a publication of the DePaul Center for Diaspora.  It is the first academic journal that directly addresses the needs of scholars working in the important field of African Diaspora studies.  It will advance the analytical and interrogative discourses that constitute this distinctive interdisciplinary study of deterritorialised  and transnational nature of the African and Black Diaspora.

Southern Africa Monthly Regional Bulletin : MRB

Southern Africa Monthly Regional Bulletin focuses on economics and business in Southern African Development Community countries.   Each issue contains economic and political analysis of southern African countries based on network of local correspondents.

Muziki

Research into the music of Africa has for many years been concentrated in the American and European diaspora. It has further been characterised by the same divisions as music research elsewhere, be they between ethnomusicologists and musicologists, or theorists and historians. The journal wishes to establish a unified African voice for African music research. Through its juxtaposition of the historical and the theoretical, the indigenous, the popular and the ‘Western’, it intends to reflect the diversity of African musics and the research that they inspire.

Koedoe

Koedoe is the research journal for the South African National Parks.  Its first objective is the publication of original papers concerned with the science and management of protected areas, across Africa. It is also concerned with the complex social-ecological interactions which envelop, and are a cornerstone issue of protected areas in the African context, especially as humans and conservation areas interact in many ways.

New Encyclopedia of Africa

Addresses the entire history of African cultures from the pharaohs and the ancient civilizations of the south through the colonial era to the emergence of 53 independent countries, some of them newly emergent in world commerce and others deep in conflict. Covers issues facing the continent such as global development, the AIDS crisis, and international terrorism.

English Academy Review : Southern African Journal of English Studies

The English Academy Review: Southern African Journal of English Studies (EAR) is the journal of the English Academy of Southern Africa. In line with the Academy’s vision of promoting effective English as a vital resource and of respecting Africa’s diverse linguistic ecology, it welcomes submissions on language as well as educational, philosophical and literary topics from Southern Africa and across the globe. In addition to refereed academic articles, it publishes creative writing and book reviews of significant new publications as well as lectures and proceedings.

Nomadic Peoples

Nomadic Peoples is an international journal published for the Commission on Nomadic Peoples, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Its primary concerns are the current circumstances of all nomadic peoples around the world and their prospects.

African Historical Review

The African Historical Review is the successor to Kleio: A Journal of Historical Studies from Africa, which was published by the Department of History at the University of South Africa (Unisa) for more than thirty-five years.  Originally conceived as a research and teaching forum for histories taught in the Department and to promote the work of students and staff, the journal has more recently been transformed into a publication in which high quality articles on a wide variety of historical subjects have appeared.