African Studies Quarterly

03/02/2026

Issue 26.1 is out now!

African Studies Quarterly is the first (est. 1997) diamond standard open access journal in the field of African Studies. ASQ publishes original manuscripts on a full range of topics related to Africa in all areas. Submissions must meet the scholarship standards within the appropriate discipline as w...

12/31/2024

ASQ wishes our contributors and readers all the best in 2025. Welcome in the new year with our just-published special issue on sports in Africa.

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11/04/2024

Issue 22.3 is out now with pieces on cultural censorship, reggae in Côte d’Ivoire, NoViolet Bulawayo, and more.

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05/23/2024

ASQ HAS MOVED!

Submit or read at our new site https://journals.flvc.org/ASQ
Past ASQ issues will remain on the original website and also be migrated to the archives section of the new site over the coming months.

African Studies Quarterly is the first (est. 1997) diamond standard open access journal in the field of African Studies. ASQ publishes original manuscripts on a full range of topics related to Africa in all areas. Submissions must meet the scholarship standards within the appropriate discipline as w...

05/08/2024

Just in time for summer, check out the recently released issue 22.2 with articles on: Rosie Motene, Juka Jabang, and Rene Lemarchand plus trunk road technology transfer in Kenya.

Volume 22, Issue 2 ISSN 2152-2448 Table of Contents Articles White Liberalism and Black Consciousness in Rosie Motene’s Reclaiming the Soil (2018) Rodwell Makombe | Abstract | Full Text: PDF (1-16) From the Cradle to the Grave: A Feminist Stylistic Reading of Select Poems from Juka Jabang’s The ...

12/22/2023

Compliments of the season from all at ASQ.

For your holiday reading, check out the recently released issue 22.1 with articles on: Africa's railway renaissance + EU gas supplies from Algeria + Vernacular-rooted imagery in stone sculptures.

Volume 22, Issue 1 ISSN 2152-2448 Table of Contents Articles Africa’s Railway Renaissance: Continental Aspirations vs. National Realities Mandira Bagwandeen | Abstract | Full Text: PDF (1-21) Scenarios for Diversification of EU Natural Gas Supplies from Algeria Oksana Voytyuk | Abstract | Full Tex...

07/20/2023

Issue 21.4 is out now featuring: Popular Venda Music -- Shebeens in Bulawayo -- Construction Regulation in Tanzania -- Regional Security in Nigeria.

Volume 21, Issue 4 ISSN 2152-2448 Table of Contents Articles Indigenous Influences on Popular Venda Music Evans Netshivhambe | Abstract | Full Text: PDF (1-13) Zimbabwe’s Economic Crisis and the Shebeen Sector in Bulawayo, 2007-08 Melody Moyo & Nathaniel Chimhete| Abstract | Full Text: PDF (14-28)...

06/16/2022

Looking for a bit of summer reading? We have you covered with pieces on peri-urbanism in Ethiopia, rural water management in Namibia, and more...
https://asq.africa.ufl.edu/current-issue/

01/20/2022

ASQ staff were saddened to hear of Prof. Kwasi Wiredu's recent passing. His essay that we published way back in 1998 - "Toward Decolonizing African Philosophy and Religion" - is still regularly cited today. Read it now with the link below.

"The issue, in other words, needs to be confronted in the spirit of due reflection."

01/10/2022

If you missed it just before year's end, check out the new issue 20.4

🔈 Our latest ASQ issue us up now! 🔈

Explore the lineup of great articles and book reviews highlighting topics like US-Africa relations, and Neighborhood Vulnerability to Security Threats in Benin City.

Read more here:
https://asq.africa.ufl.edu/current-issue/

11/04/2021

20.3 is out. Highlights include: COVID-19 & Sino-African Relations; Decolonizing Q***r Sexualities; Access to Urban Land in Lusaka; Maritime Conflicts between Uganda & Neighbors; Critiquing Land Restitution in South Africa; School Abductions & Insecurity in Nigeria.

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Volume 20, Issue 3 ISSN 2152-2448 Table of Contents Highlights: The Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sino-African Relations; Decolonizing Q***r Sexualities; Access to Urban Land and the Claim to the City in Africa; Economic and Political Drivers of Maritime Conflicts between Uganda and its Neighb...