The Journal of Contemporary African Studies (JCAS) is an interdisciplinary journal in the human sciences which seeks to promote a scholarly understanding of developments and change in Africa.

The journal focuses primarily on African and Third World Politics; African Studies; Area Studies; International Politics and Politics & International Relations. It is peer reviewed and has an international subscription.

JCAS is published four times a year (in January, April, July and October) by Routledge, Taylor& Francis Ltd in the United Kingdom. The Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) retains sole responsibility for the selection of material, editing and editorial policy of the journal. Copyright in the title and content and ownership is vested in the Institute.

The journal caters to an ever growing audience, and has produced the following special issues so far:

• Undoing Independence: Regionalism and the Reincorporation of Transkei into South Africa, edited by Andrew Donaldson, Julia Segar and Roger Southall (Vol. 11, No. 2, 1992)
• The Politics of Identity, edited by Pat MacAllister and John Sharp (Vol. 15, No. 1, 1997)
• South Africa in Transition (Vol. 16, No. 1, 1998);
• Livelihood, Linkages and Policy Parodoxes, guest edited by Leslie Bank and Deborah Bryceson (Vol. 19, No. 1, 2001);
• Limits to Liberation in Southern Africa, guest edited by Henning Melber (Vol.21, No. 2, 2003);
• The War on Terror in the Sahara, guest edited by Ann McDougall (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2007);
• Security in West Africa, guest edited by Paul Williams and Jurgen Haacke (Vol. 26, No. 2, 2008);
• Political Economies of Displacement in Southern Africa, guest edited by Amanda Hammar and Graeme Rogers (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2008);
• Kenya’s Uncertain Democracy: The Electoral Crisis of 2008, edited by Peter Kagwanja and Roger Southall (Vol. 27, No. 3, 2009);
• Somalia: State Collapse, Terrorism and Piracy, guest edited by Brian Hesse (Vol. 3, No. 28, 2010);
• Nigeria at Fifty, guest edited by Ebenezer Obadare and Wale Adebwanwi (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2010);
• China’s Rise in Africa: Beyond the Headlines, guest edited by Dominik Kopinski, Andrzej Polus and Ian Taylor (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2011);
• Heritage Management and Tourism in Africa, guest edited by Rosabelle Boswell and David O’Kane (Vol. 29, No. 4, 2011); and
• Progress in Zimbabwe, guest edited by David Moore (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2012)
• Mining and Urbanisation in Africa, guest edited by Deborah Bryceson and Danny MacKinnon (Vol 30, No. 4, 2012)
• Social Movements and Political Change in Africa, guest edited by Tom Lodge, Rachel Ibreck and Ciara McCorley (Vol 31, No 2, 2013).

Editorial correspondence, including manuscripts for submission, should be sent to:

Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa.

Contributions may also be submitted electronically to: editorjcas@ru.ac.za

Editorial board 

Chief Editor:

Prof. Nthabiseng Motsemme - Associate Professor, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Johannesburg, South Africa

Co-Editors:

Kirk Helliker - Unit of Zimbabwean Studies, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, South Africa

David Fryer – Department of Economics and Economic History, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, South Africa

Vito Laterza – Department of Global Development and Planning, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Agder, Norway

Siphokazi Magadla – Political and International Studies, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, South Africa

Zethu Matebeni – Research Chair in Sexualities, Genders and Queer Studies, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Fort Hare, South Africa

Sally Matthews – Department of Politics and International Studies, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, South Africa

Paul Maylam – Department of History, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, South Africa

Uchenna Okeja – Department of Philosophy, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, South Africa

Lyn Ossome – Political Studies Department, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of theWitwatersrand, South Africa

Amma Panin – CORE/LIDAM, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Louvain, Belgium

Ramola Ramtohul – Department of Social Studies, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Mauritius, Mauritius

Natasha Shivji – African Studies Centre, Cambridge 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, United Kingdom

Samaila Suleiman – Department of History, Bayero 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, Nigeria

Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso – Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Babcock 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, Nigeria

Kolawole Omomowo, Department of Social Sciences, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Namibia, Namibia

Oka Obono, Demography and Population Studies Unit, Department of Sociology, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Ibadan, Nigeria

Detlev Krige, Department of Anthropology, Archaeology and Development Studies, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Pretoria, South Africa

Geoffrey Antrobus, Department of Economics, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, South Africa

Samuel Sadian, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, South Africa

Ayanda Gamedze, Institute of Social and Economic Research,Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, South Africa

Thoko Siphunga, Department of Sociology , Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 South Africa

Book Reviews Editor:

Kholeka Shange – Department of Anthropology, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Administrative Support :

NISC - Khaya Sami - khaya@nisc.co.za

Editorial Board:

Sola Akinrinade – Obafemi Awolowo 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, Nigeria

Bruce Baker – African Studies Centre, Coventry 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, United Kingdom

William Beinart - St Anthony’s College, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Oxford, United Kingdom

Dickson Eyoh – Department of Political Science, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Toronto, Canada

Brian J. Hesse – Northwest Missouri State 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, USA

Gilbert Khadiagala – Department of International Relations, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Witwatersrand, South Africa

Tshidiso Maloka – Africa Institute of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

Zibani Maundeni - Political and Administrative Studies, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Botswana, Gaborone

Basile Njio - Department of Anthropology, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Douala, Cameroon

Deborah Posel - 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Cape Town, South Africa

Oliver Saasa - Institute of African Studies, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Zambia

Issa Shivji - Mwalimu Nyerere Professor of Pan African Studies, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Roger Southall – Department of Sociology, Society, Work and Development Institute, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Gizachew Tiruneh – Department of Political Science, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Central Arkansas, USA

Further details can be found on the journal’s Taylor & Francis website: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cjca

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