Excellent idea! But na me don bring my matter again oh! In addition to Ibra's suggestions, the editorial team may be increased and broadened: it should include non-historians; in addition to Oga Falola and Headteacher Ochonu, you may add other scholars with established names and clout; and in order to build bridges between Diaspora-based and Africa-based scholars, we need to see more of the latter, in fact, that may be a revolutionary departure from the ways that the extant Africa-area journals privilege "Westerners" on editorial teams, etc. Thanks for an excellent initiative.
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - CFP: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WEST AFRICAN STUDIES (IJWAS)
This is great news. I congratulate the people who are behind this initiative. However, I have a couple of questions to ask.
I don't know if I'm missing something in the CFP, but I was struck by the fact that to be published in the IJWA, manuscripts "must be in English." I wondered what the rationale behind this disposition could be. How could a journal intended to address "increasingly diverse, urgent issues and debates emerging from and about West Africa" possibly exclude West African scholars/scholars of West Africa who write in French, Portuguese, and other West African languages?
Once again, I wholeheartedly applaud the initiative.
Best,
Ibra Sene
The College of Wooster
Quoting Toyin Falola <toyin.falola@mail.utexas.edu>:
> INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WEST AFRICAN STUDIES (IJWAS)
>
>
>
>
> International Journal of West African Studies
>
> This journal will address increasingly diverse, urgent issues and
> debates emerging from and about West Africa, providing the
> opportunity for both the established a new and emerginggroup of
> scholars to disseminate the products of their research in a timely
> fashion. Quality essays on West African affairs, particularly
> covering economic, political, religious, linguistic, and cultural
> aspects, are invited. IJWAS will also publish book reviews and review
> essays as well. Submissions will be peer-reviewed before acceptance.
> IJWAS will be published twice a year.
>
> Articles employing interdisciplinary or multi-disciplinary methods
> are welcome, as are essays that are grounded in the methodological
> protocols of specific fields in the humanities, social sciences, and
> applied natural sciences. In each case, and regardless of the essay's
> declared methodological tool or the disciplinary orientation of the
> author, we expect articles to explore new issues and/or shed new
> light on familiar phenomena through compelling analysis,
> methodological innovation, and empirical depth.
>
> The journal takes off from a rather counterintuitive premise: in
> spite of intense academic interest in the ways in which West
> Africans, their history, their religions, languages and cultures have
> become integrated with the historical, demographic, and cultural
> realities of far-flung Atlantic and Mediterranean zones, the region
> is understudied and underresearched. We therefore expect submissions
> to be informed by a high standard of research and informational
> integrity.
>
> IJWAS will fill a gap in scholarship, especially in the areas of
> politics, history, religion, culture, sociology, literature, visual
> arts, art history, geography, language, medicine, and social welfare.
> Given the complex, polyvalent dynamics of the entity called West
> Africa and the constantly shifting perspectives that emerge from this
> international player in global politics, this journal will serve a
> vital need. This is a unique journal that will be a medium for
> regional intellectual dialogue, a site of uncommon knowledge
> production, and a dynamic locus of international mediation and
> polemical ferment.
>
>
>
>
> EDITORIAL BOARD
>
> General Editor: Toyin Falola
> Editor: Moses Ochonu, Vanderbilt University
> Editor: Sati Fwatshak, University of Jos, Nigeria
> Editor: Hetty ter Haar, Independent Scholar, UK
> Editor: Nana Akua Amponsah, University of Texas at Austin
>
>
>
>
> STYLE
>
> Contributions, including manuscripts and documents, may be of any
> reasonable length. Manuscripts must be in English and must be
> submitted as electronic text. All documents should be prepared in MS
> Word or Rich Text format. All sections of the manuscript, including
> title page, abstract, acknowledgments, references, figure-captions,
> bibliography, tables, and offset quotations must be double-spaced.
> All texts in languages other than English must be translated into
> English. Submissions may be made electronically as email attachment
> to Toyin Falola (toyin.falola@mail.utexas.edu). Contributors are
> expected to furnish the editors with professionally drafted figures,
> suitable for reproduction, and are responsible for obtaining
> necessary permissions. Camera-ready illustrations may be submitted
> in hard copy or in electronic format. The submission of a hardcopy
> must be accompanied by a disk containing the file of a matching copy,
> and sent to:
>
> International Journal of West African Studies
> c/o Professor Toyin Falola
> Department of History
> University of Texas at Austin
> 1 University Station
> Austin, TX 78712-0220
>
> *Please send electronic submissions via email:
> toyin.falola@mail.utexas.edu Subscriptions
> This journal's rate may be approximately US $40 for individuals and
> $60 for institutions. -- Toyin Falola
> Department of History
> The University of Texas at Austin
> 1 University Station
> Austin, TX 78712-0220
> USA
> 512 475 7224
> 512 475 7222 (fax)
> http://www.toyinfalola.com/
> www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa
> http://groups.google.com/group/yorubaaffairs
> http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
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I don't know if I'm missing something in the CFP, but I was struck by the fact that to be published in the IJWA, manuscripts "must be in English." I wondered what the rationale behind this disposition could be. How could a journal intended to address "increasingly diverse, urgent issues and debates emerging from and about West Africa" possibly exclude West African scholars/scholars of West Africa who write in French, Portuguese, and other West African languages?
Once again, I wholeheartedly applaud the initiative.
Best,
Ibra Sene
The College of Wooster
Quoting Toyin Falola <toyin.falola@mail.utexas.edu>:
> INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WEST AFRICAN STUDIES (IJWAS)
>
>
>
>
> International Journal of West African Studies
>
> This journal will address increasingly diverse, urgent issues and
> debates emerging from and about West Africa, providing the
> opportunity for both the established a new and emerginggroup of
> scholars to disseminate the products of their research in a timely
> fashion. Quality essays on West African affairs, particularly
> covering economic, political, religious, linguistic, and cultural
> aspects, are invited. IJWAS will also publish book reviews and review
> essays as well. Submissions will be peer-reviewed before acceptance.
> IJWAS will be published twice a year.
>
> Articles employing interdisciplinary or multi-disciplinary methods
> are welcome, as are essays that are grounded in the methodological
> protocols of specific fields in the humanities, social sciences, and
> applied natural sciences. In each case, and regardless of the essay's
> declared methodological tool or the disciplinary orientation of the
> author, we expect articles to explore new issues and/or shed new
> light on familiar phenomena through compelling analysis,
> methodological innovation, and empirical depth.
>
> The journal takes off from a rather counterintuitive premise: in
> spite of intense academic interest in the ways in which West
> Africans, their history, their religions, languages and cultures have
> become integrated with the historical, demographic, and cultural
> realities of far-flung Atlantic and Mediterranean zones, the region
> is understudied and underresearched. We therefore expect submissions
> to be informed by a high standard of research and informational
> integrity.
>
> IJWAS will fill a gap in scholarship, especially in the areas of
> politics, history, religion, culture, sociology, literature, visual
> arts, art history, geography, language, medicine, and social welfare.
> Given the complex, polyvalent dynamics of the entity called West
> Africa and the constantly shifting perspectives that emerge from this
> international player in global politics, this journal will serve a
> vital need. This is a unique journal that will be a medium for
> regional intellectual dialogue, a site of uncommon knowledge
> production, and a dynamic locus of international mediation and
> polemical ferment.
>
>
>
>
> EDITORIAL BOARD
>
> General Editor: Toyin Falola
> Editor: Moses Ochonu, Vanderbilt University
> Editor: Sati Fwatshak, University of Jos, Nigeria
> Editor: Hetty ter Haar, Independent Scholar, UK
> Editor: Nana Akua Amponsah, University of Texas at Austin
>
>
>
>
> STYLE
>
> Contributions, including manuscripts and documents, may be of any
> reasonable length. Manuscripts must be in English and must be
> submitted as electronic text. All documents should be prepared in MS
> Word or Rich Text format. All sections of the manuscript, including
> title page, abstract, acknowledgments, references, figure-captions,
> bibliography, tables, and offset quotations must be double-spaced.
> All texts in languages other than English must be translated into
> English. Submissions may be made electronically as email attachment
> to Toyin Falola (toyin.falola@mail.utexas.edu). Contributors are
> expected to furnish the editors with professionally drafted figures,
> suitable for reproduction, and are responsible for obtaining
> necessary permissions. Camera-ready illustrations may be submitted
> in hard copy or in electronic format. The submission of a hardcopy
> must be accompanied by a disk containing the file of a matching copy,
> and sent to:
>
> International Journal of West African Studies
> c/o Professor Toyin Falola
> Department of History
> University of Texas at Austin
> 1 University Station
> Austin, TX 78712-0220
>
> *Please send electronic submissions via email:
> toyin.falola@mail.utexas.edu Subscriptions
> This journal's rate may be approximately US $40 for individuals and
> $60 for institutions. -- Toyin Falola
> Department of History
> The University of Texas at Austin
> 1 University Station
> Austin, TX 78712-0220
> USA
> 512 475 7224
> 512 475 7222 (fax)
> http://www.toyinfalola.com/
> www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa
> http://groups.google.com/group/yorubaaffairs
> http://groups.google.com/group/USAAfricaDialogue
>
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