Australasian Review of African Studies

Aims & Scope

ARAS is a multi-disciplinary journal that seeks to provide critical, authoritative and accessible material on a range of African affairs that is interesting and readable to as broad an audience as possible, both academic and non-academic. ARAS is constantly seeking articles in the field of African Studies and welcomes contributions from all over the world. Submissions must be relevant to the discipline of African Studies which means centering research on African ways of knowing and giving Africa agency in all components of research, teaching and learning. African Studies is an academic discipline, epistemology and is the politics of decolonisation NOT as anything or everything about Africa. Each issue includes both scholarly and generalist articles, a book review section (which normally includes a lengthy review essay), short notes on contemporary African issues and events (up to 2,000 words), as well as reports on research and professional involvement in Africa, and on African university activities.

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Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

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