Africa Today (ISSN 0001-9887, e-ISSN 1527-1978) publishes peer-reviewed scholarly articles, book reviews, and short features on topics related to contemporary Africa and its diasporas. It seeks to be a venue for interdisciplinary approaches, diverse perspectives, and original research across the humanities and social sciences that is accessible to a multidisciplinary readership. Africa Today welcomes contributions from scholars across the globe, and especially from Africa-based colleagues.
The journal welcomes submissions of individual manuscripts for open issues as well special issues focused on particular topics. Past special issues have covered themes such as the construction of political legitimacy in Mali, processes of refuge-seeking, ethnographies of postcrisis situations, politics and decolonization, and religious entrepreneurship. Africa Today was established in 1954. It has been edited and published four times a year at Indiana University since 1999. Please review our article submission guidelines or the special issue proposal guidelines and then contact the Managing Editor or any of the editors with additional questions you might have about publishing in Africa Today.
The journal is published quarterly in winter, spring, summer, and fall by Indiana University Press, Office of Scholarly Publishing, Herman B Wells Library 350, 1320 E. 10th St., Bloomington, IN 47405-3907.
To view current and past issues, visit Africa Today on JSTOR and Project MUSE.
2025-10-22
Africa Today’s Vol. 72, Number 1, Fall 2025, has been published in print and on Project Muse. This is a special issue on Belonging and Returning to the African Community: Critical Perspectives.
2025-07-22
New Double Issue is Out: Africa Today’s Issue 71.3-4, Spring/Summer 2025, has been published in print and on Project Muse.
Special Double Issue on Rethinking Women’s Political Power in West Africa.