Africa Today
ISSN: 0001-9887 | eISSN: 1527-1978
Africa Today publishes peer-reviewed, scholarly articles and book reviews in a broad range of academic disciplines on topics related to contemporary A...
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African Affairs
ISSN: 0001-9909 | eISSN: 1468-2621
African Affairs is published on behalf of the Royal African Society and is the top ranked journal in African Studies. It is an inter-disciplinary jour...
View Journal DetailsAfrican American Review
ISSN: 1062-4783
African American Review (AAR) is a scholarly aggregation of insightful essays on African American literature, theatre, film, the visual arts, and cult...
View Journal DetailsAfrican and Asian Studies
ISSN: 1569-2094 | eISSN: 1569-2108
African and Asian Studies (AAS) presents a scholarly account of studies of individuals and societies in Africa and Asia. Its scope is to publish origi...
View Journal DetailsAfrican and Black Diaspora
ISSN: 1752-8631 | eISSN: 1752-864X
African and Black Diaspora is a multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed international journal that seeks to broaden and deepen our understanding of the lived...
View Journal DetailsAfrican Archaeological Review
ISSN: 0263-0338 | eISSN: 1572-9842
African Archaeological Review publishes original research articles, review essays, reports, book/media reviews, and forums/commentaries on African arc...
View Journal DetailsAfrican Conflict and Peacebuilding Review
ISSN: 2156-695X | eISSN: 2156-7263
African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review (ACPR) is an interdisciplinary forum for creative and rigorous studies of conflict and peace in Africa, and...
View Journal DetailsAfrican Development Review
ISSN: 1017-6772 | eISSN: 1467-8268
African Development Review is a professional journal devoted to the study and analysis of development policy in Africa. Published three times a year f...
View Journal DetailsAfrican Evaluation Journal
ISSN: 2310-4988 | eISSN: 2306-5133
The journal publishes high quality peer-reviewed articles merit on any subject related to evaluation, and provide targeted information of professional...
View Journal DetailsAfrican Geographical Review
ISSN: 1937-6812
The African Geographical Review (AGR) is a leading international peer reviewed journal for geographical scholarship relating to Africa. It publishes t...
View Journal DetailsAfrican Historical Review
ISSN: 1753-2523 | eISSN: 1753-2531
The African Historical Review (formerly Kleio: A Journal of Historical Studies from Africa) is an accredited, peer-reviewed journal with a long and di...
View Journal DetailsAfrican Human Mobility Review
ISSN: 2411-6955 | eISSN: 2410-7972
The African Human Mobility Review (AHMR) is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed on-line journal created to encourage and facilitate the study of all as...
View Journal DetailsAfrican Human Rights Law Journal
ISSN: 1609-073X | eISSN: 1996-2096
African Human Rights Law Journal (AHRLJ), a leading peer-reviewed journal focused on human rights related topics of relevance to Africa, Africans and...
View Journal DetailsAfrican Human Rights Yearbook
ISSN: 2523-1367 | eISSN: 2663-323X
The three institutions making up the African regional human rights system, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Commission on...
View Journal DetailsAfrican Identities
ISSN: 1472-5843 | eISSN: 1472-5851
African Identities provides a critical forum for the examination of African and diasporic expressions, representations and identities. The aim of this...
View Journal DetailsAfrican Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development
ISSN: 1684-5358 | eISSN: 1684-5374
The African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND) is a highly cited and prestigious quarterly peer reviewed journal with a...
View Journal DetailsAfrican Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure
| eISSN: 2223-814X
​AJHTL is a proudly African, independent, privately owned multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, not aligned to any institution which is published...
View Journal DetailsAfrican Journal of International and Comparative Law
ISSN: 0954-8890 | eISSN: 1755-1609
The African Journal of International and Comparative Law provides invaluable scholarly material on law from a pan-African point of view. The journal i...
View Journal DetailsAfrican Journal of Legal Studies
ISSN: 2210-9730 | eISSN: 1708-7384
The African Journal of Legal Studies (AJLS) is a peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary academic journal focusing on human rights and rule of law issues...
View Journal DetailsAfrican Journal of Library Archives and Information Science
ISSN: 0795-4778
African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science is established mainly to provide a forum for librarians, archivists, documentalists, info...
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