CODESRIA: Africa Review of Books

Africa Review of Books
ISSN 0851-7592

The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is pleased to announce that it has finalised arrangements for the publication of the Africa Review of Books.

For CODESRIA, the project dates back more than a decade and grew out of a felt need, expressed by members of the African academic community, to produce a publication of high scholarly standing that would be a useful resource for all those who are actively engaged in research in and on Africa.

The Review is designed to:
* serve, in a broad sense, as a multi-disciplinary forum for critical analyses, discussion and debate about Africa, both historically and contemporaneously; * bring to the attention of the scholarly community works of significance which are published within Africa and which might otherwise be lost for lack of proper dissemination; * undertake a regular assessment of major works published on Africa outside the continent; * produce short state-of-the-art commentaries on concepts, methodology and trends in the study of Africa and African affairs; and * take regular stock of the evolution of the various disciplines and what this implies for the study of Africa.

The Review is a bi-annual publication in English and French with an initial print run of 2500 copies per edition, and its ISSN is 0851-7592.

In line with CODESRIA's Charter-mandate of strengthening the institutional basis of knowledge production in Africa, the Council decided that the Review will be located within an African institution actively involved in social research. The Forum for Social Studies (FSS) in Ethiopia and the Centre de Recherche en Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle (CRASC) coordinate the English and French editions of the Review.

For more information about the project, contact

CODESRIA
Publications and Communication
P.O. Box 3304, Dakar, Senegal.
tel: +221-825 98 22/23
Fax: +221 824 12 89
Email: chifaou.amzat@codesria.sn
Web :<http://www.codesria.org> www.codesria.org

Tel : 213 41 41 97 83
Fax : +213 41 41 97 82
Email:<mailto:crasc@crasc.org> crasc@crasc.org Web: www.crasc.org

Forum for Social Studies

P.O. Box 3089
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Tel.: +251-1-12 95 79; +251-55 61 21
Email: fss@telecom.net.et