Call for Articles: New Series on African History, Culture and Politics

The University of Wisconsin Press announces a new series on Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture under the general editorship of Thomas Spear, David Henige, and Michael Schatzberg. We invite submission of proposals and manuscripts of innovative work based on original research, critical reviews and syntheses of a field or area, and texts or critical anthologies designed for classroom use. We welcome interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary work that addresses questions and debates of broad theoretical, empirical, methodological, and comparative significance in Africa and the Diaspora. We are also interested in co-publishing with European and African publishers and in translations of original works in French and other languages. We are especially interested in works focusing on pre-colonial, colonial, and contemporary history; political history and politics; oral traditions and literature; anthropological approaches to contemporary problems and issues; and historical and cultural studies of Africans in the Diaspora.

Selection of manuscripts will be based on the significance of the topic, quality of scholarship, clarity of style and presentation, and marketability. All works will be published in hardback and paper and distributed internationally.

The new series will complement other new Wisconsin series on Women in Africa and the Diaspora edited by Aili Tripp and Stanlie James and African and Diasporic Religion edited by Jacob Olupona and Charles Taylor.

Please submit enquiries or proposals to the Director or any of the editors:

Dr. Robert A. Mandel: ramandel@wisc.edu Thomas Spear: tspear@wisc.edu David Henige: dhenige@libary.wisc.edu Michael Schatzberg: schatzberg@polisci.wisc.edu