Virtual Issue: Africa-Asia

Browse a selection of cutting-edge research from African Affairs on African-Asian relationships. The papers cover a range of topics around the relationships between China, India, Brazil, and African nations, as well as an introduction by Lina Benabdallah.

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Research Notes

African Affairs publishes peer-reviewed short pieces called Research Notes. These are designed to encourage debate and analysis of recent methodological and ethical issues in African studies. They allow researchers to share insights into these issues and to critique recent developments in the field as well as long established practices.

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Articles With Impact

OUP is granting free access to a collection of articles making an impact in African Affairs. These articles cover a variety of topics and showcase the high-quality research being published in the journal. The collection features the most highly cited, read, and shared articles from recent years, and is freely available to read online until the end of 2021.

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Country Reading Lists

African Affairs have compiled thirteen reading lists on the subject of different key countries in Africa. The reading lists assist readers in navigating the breadth of research being published in the journal, as well as introduce topics that inform debate and advance scholarship on contemporary Africa. Countries featured include Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, and Uganda.

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Health

As part of the thematic reading lists African Affairs have compiled a collection of articles on the subject of health. Article topics include anti-retroviral treatment in South Africa, Zimbabwe’s catastrophic cholera outbreak, and the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

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Thematic Reading Lists

African Affairs have compiled eleven reading lists on key themes in African studies. The reading lists assist readers in navigating the breadth of research being published in the journal, as well as introduce topics that inform debate and advance scholarship on contemporary Africa. Themes featured include war and conflict, gender, politics, and society, and democracy and elections.

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Briefings

Briefings in African Affairs are around 4,000 words long, and cover an issue of contemporary interest and significance to African politics and international relations, broadly defined. They are accessible to a broad audience, give an overview of the issue or topic, and provide a fresh angle or new insight. 

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Prizes and Awards

African Affairs is proud to award a number of distinguished prizes and awards each year, to outstanding authors and articles in a diverse range of research areas.

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Advance Articles

Read a collection of the latest articles that have been recently accepted for publication.

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How African presidents rig elections to stay in office

There are at least 19 African countries where the heads-of-state have overstayed beyond their term limits via (un)constitutional revisions... But there are also 11 notable European countries that have no term limits at all on how long the Prime Minister or Chancellor could stay in office, which is probably why the Africans do not pay heed to lectures from the Europeans, because the latter do not believe in term limits themselves!

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The worrying future of trade in Africa

Africa is on the cusp of creating the African Continental Free Trade Area. This will be the first step on a long journey towards creating a single continental market with a customs union and free movement of people and investment – similar to the European Union. What could the implementation and coordination challenges be for this agreement?

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The Trump administration’s Africa policy

Does President Donald Trump have a policy on Africa, and if so what? The answer to this question is both interesting and revealing. President Trump does not seem to pay much attention to Africa. And yet, Africa is the one region of the world on which the Trump administration has published a coherent strategy. The strategy reflects President Trump’s “America First” foreign policy.

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Why submit to African Affairs?

African Affairs is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal, which aims to appeal to a wide audience. It welcomes submissions from all over the world, in particular from Africa. It accepts articles not just from professional academics, but from authors in a variety of occupations.

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