The Australasian Review of African Studies
(formerly the African Studies Review and Newsletter)

ISSN No: 1447-8420

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Mission Statement
The Australasian Review of African Studies aims to contribute to a better understanding of Africa in Australasia and the western Pacific. It publishes both scholarly and generalist articles that provide authoritative, informed, critical material on Africa and African affairs that is interesting and readable and so available to as broad an audience as possible, both academic and non-academic.

About The Australasian Review of African Studies (ARAS)
The Australasian Review of African Studies (ARAS), is published by the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP) twice a year in June and December.

Each issue includes both scholarly and generalist articles; a book review section (which normally includes a lengthy review essay), short notes (up to 2,000 words) on contemporary African issues and events, as well as reports on research and professional involvement in Africa, and on African university activities. What makes the Review distinctive as a professional journal is this ‘mix’ of authoritative scholarly and generalist material on critical African issues written from very different disciplinary and professional perspectives.

The Review is available to all members of the African Studies Association of Australia and the Pacific as part of their membership. Membership is open to anyone interested in African affairs, and the annual subscription is modest. The ARAS readership intersects academic, professional, voluntary agency and public audiences and includes specialists and non-specialists and members of the growing African community in Australia. There is also now a small but growing international readership which extends to Africa, North America and the United Kingdom.

As the only journal in Australia devoted to African affairs ARAS aims to contribute to a better understanding of Africa in Australasia and the Pacific and thus to maintain an accepted and respected focus for the academic study of Africa in Australia. As our international readership increases we hope also to contribute to the wider discussion of African affairs.

We hope that you will assist us in this endeavour by -

 

ARAS Editorial Board

Editor
Dr. Tanya Lyons.
School of Political and International Studies,
Flinders University.
Tel. 61 (08) 8201 3588
Email: Tanya.lyons@flinders.edu.au


Review Editor

Dr. Jeremy Martens.
History Department,
University of Western Australia.
Email: jmartens@arts.uwa.edu.au

Chair of Editorial Board
Prof. Helen Ware.
University of New England.
Email: hware@une.edu.au
Ph: (02) 6773 2442


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If you would wish to review any books please contact the Review Editor and express your interest.
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Deadlines for Submission of Articles, notes, news and book reviews.

Vol 29,  No. 1 June and No. 2 December 2008
submissions now closed
(expected publication date – October 2008)

Vol 30 No. 1 June 2009
Submit all articles for peer review before November 30th 2008 to the ARAS Editor
Submit all Notes and News before April 30th 2008 to the ARAS Editor
All book reviews should be completed and sent to the Review Editor before December 31st 2008

Vol. 30 No. 2  December 2009
Submit all articles for peer review before April 30th 2009 to the ARAS Editor
Submit all Notes and News before October 30th 2009 to ARAS Editor
All book reviews should be completed and sent to the Review Editor before August 30th 2009

Vol. 31 No. 1 June 2010
Submit all articles for peer review before October 30th 2009 to the ARAS Editor
Submit all Notes and News before April 30th 2009 to the ARAS Editor
All book reviews should be completed and sent to the Review Editor before December 31st  2009

Vol. 31 No. 2 December 2010
Submit all articles for peer review before April 30th 2010 to the ARAS Editor
Submit all Notes and News before October 30th 2010 to the ARAS Editor
All book reviews should be completed and sent to the Review Editor before August 30th  2010

Vol 32 No. 1 June 2011
Submit all articles for peer review before October 30th 2010 to the ARAS Editor
Submit all Notes and News before April 30th 2011 to the ARAS Editor
All book reviews should be completed and sent to the Review Editor before December 31st  2010

Vol. 32 No. 2 December 2011
Submit all articles for peer review before April 30th 2011 to the ARAS Editor
Submit all Notes and News before October 30th 2011 to the ARAS Editor
All book reviews should be completed and sent to the Review Editor
before August 30th  2011


Editorial Advisory Board 

Henry Bernstein 

The School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London
 

Martin Chanock

Law and Legal Studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria
 

Martin Doornbos

Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands
 

David Dorward

African Research Institute, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria
 

Norman Etherington

History Department, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 
 

David Goldsworthy

Political and Social Enquiry, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 
 

Gareth Griffiths

English Dept. SUNY Albany, 1400 Washington Ave, Albany NY 12210, USA
 

Penelope Hetherington

History Department, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 
 

Martin Klein

History Department, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
 

Anthony Low

Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies, A.N.U., Canberra, ACT
 

Scott MacWilliam

National Centre for Development Studies, A.N.U. Canberra, ACT 
 

Thomas Spear

Department of History, The University of Wisconsin at Madison
 

Christine Sylvester

Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands 


Joan Wardrop

Department of Social Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, Bentley, WA
 

Some recent ARAS articles

The Sexual Theme in a West African Demographic Research Programme
Em. Prof. "Jack" Caldwell

A Note on Tensions in African-Australian Families and the Australian Family Court
Apollo Nsubuga-Kyobe

In the Shadow of War: Australia's relations with Sudan from Gordon to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Beyond
Wendy Levy

NEPAD: From a Crisis of Legitimacy to a Cradle of Hope
Zein Kebonang

EU Spaghetti: The Cotonou Process and the Issue of Overlapping Memberships in Regional Trade Agreements
Patrick Kimunguyi

"Undergoing untold hardships"? The "native shippers" of Lagos and the Origins of West African Nationalism
Peter Yearwood

 

The Subtle Connection between the Greater Ethiopian Image, the Ideology of Blaming and Silencing, and the Cult of Emperor Haile Selassie

Jeylan Wolyie Hussein

Contents from recent ARAS issues

   

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