USA Africa Dialogue Series - CFP: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WEST AFRICAN STUDIES (IJWAS)

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. 

 
 

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Toyin Falola
Department of History
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station

Austin, TX 78712-0220
USA
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