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| Discipline | African studies, Political science, International Relations, Sociology |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Ambreena Manji, George Bob-Milliar, and Scott Straus |
| Publication details | |
Former name(s) | Journal of the African Society Journal of the Royal African Society |
| History | 1901–present |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (United Kingdom) |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| 2.8 (2022) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Afr. Aff. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0001-9909 (print) 1468-2621 (web) |
| LCCN | 2002-227380 |
| JSTOR | 00019909 |
| OCLC no. | 51206437 |
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African Affairs is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by Oxford University Press on behalf of the London-based Royal African Society. The journal covers any Africa-related topic: political, social, economic, environmental and historical. Each issue also includes a section of book reviews.
It is the No 1. ranked journal in African Studies and the No 1. ranked journal in Area Studies. The journal is also ranked within political science.
It was established as the Journal of the African Society in 1901, and was published as the Journal of the Royal African Society from 1936 until it obtained its current name in 1944.