African Affairs

African Affairs
DisciplineAfrican studies, Political science, International Relations, Sociology
LanguageEnglish
Edited byRicardo 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
History1901–present
Publisher
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom)
FrequencyQuarterly
2.8 (2022)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Afr. Aff.
Indexing
ISSN0001-9909 (print)
1468-2621 (web)
LCCN2002-227380
JSTOR00019909
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.