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| Cahiers d'études africaines | |
|---|---|
| Title | Cahiers d'études africaines |
| Discipline | African studies |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Éditions EHESS |
| Country | France |
| History | 1960–present |
| Frequency | Biannual |
| Issn | 0008-0055 |
Cahiers d'études africaines is a French-language scholarly journal founded in 1960 that publishes research on Africa, combining historical, anthropological, linguistic, and political perspectives. The journal has engaged with debates involving figures and institutions such as Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, Sékou Touré, Julius Nyerere, Jomo Kenyatta and scholarly centers like École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Institut d'études africaines, School of Oriental and African Studies, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Makerere University, University of Ibadan, Université de Yaoundé.
Founded against the backdrop of decolonization, the journal emerged during debates involving Charles de Gaulle, Pierre Mendès France, Frantz Fanon and postwar intellectuals tied to institutions such as Collège de France, École pratique des hautes études, and Musée de l'Homme. Early editorial networks included scholars linked to Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault and researchers working on cases like Algerian War, Mau Mau Uprising, Independence of Congo, Ghanaian independence, Senegalese independence, and Guinea independence. Through the 1960s and 1970s the journal published work intersecting with debates about Negritude, Pan-Africanism, Non-Aligned Movement, and comparative studies referencing British Empire, French Fourth Republic, Portuguese Colonial War, Belgian Congo, South African apartheid, and the Rwandan Kingdom.
The journal covers empirical and theoretical studies concerned with regions such as Sahel, Maghreb, Horn of Africa, Great Lakes region, West Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa and island territories including Madagascar and Comoros. Articles address urban cases like Dakar, Lagos, Kinshasa, Cairo, Tripoli, Johannesburg and rural studies in locales such as Sahelian villages, Nigerien communities, Bamako environs, Upper Volta territories. Contributions intersect with the work of historians and theorists including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, Fernand Braudel, Edward Said, Sylvia Wynter and archive-based studies that cite collections like Archives Nationales d'Outre-Mer, British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, American National Archives and missionary records tied to White Fathers. The journal has featured research on movements and events such as Algerian War of Independence, Kenyan Mau Mau, Congo Crisis, Angolan War of Independence, Mozambican War of Independence, Ethiopian Revolution, Somali Civil War, Libyan Revolution, South African liberation struggle, and analyses referencing treaties like the Treaty of Versailles only insofar as they shaped imperial frameworks.
The editorial board has historically included scholars affiliated with École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Université Paris Nanterre, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, Université de Provence and international partners at University of Cape Town, University of Nairobi, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, University of Lagos, McGill University, Harvard University and University of Oxford. Publishing responsibilities are held by Éditions of EHESS in concert with distribution partners including Presses universitaires de France and international aggregators such as JSTOR and library networks like Bibliothèque nationale de France and major university libraries in Abidjan, Lagos, Dakar and Cairo. The peer-review process involves external referees from institutions like SOAS, Leiden University, Université de Bordeaux Montaigne and University of California, Los Angeles.
The journal is indexed in scholarly databases and catalogues used by researchers at WorldCat, JSTOR, Scopus, Web of Science bibliographies and national catalogues including Bibliothèque nationale de France. Its articles are cited in monographs and edited volumes published by presses such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Brill, Karthala and Indiana University Press. The journal's influence is visible in scholarship on decolonization, postcolonial theory, and area studies that reference works by Achille Mbembe, Chinua Achebe, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Walter Rodney, Basil Davidson, John Iliffe, Martin Meredith and in policy analyses by institutions such as United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and African Union.
Contributors have included prominent historians, anthropologists and political scientists like Jean Suret-Canale, Ibrahima Thioub, Vladimir Platonov (contextual archival scholars), Paulin Hountondji, Achille Mbembe, Jean-Loup Amselle, Monique Jeudy-Ballini, Isabelle Merle, Philip Curtin, Michael Crowder, Pierre Bonny and guest editors tied to thematic issues on slavery, migration, urbanization, environment and oral histories. Special issues have centered on topics such as Atlantic slave trade, Trans-Saharan trade, Islam in West Africa, Christian missions in Africa, African diasporas, Cold War in Africa, Resource extraction in Katanga, Rural revolts, Urban anthropology of Kinshasa and commemorations of anniversaries like the Year of Africa (1960).
Back issues and current volumes circulate via institutional subscriptions at university libraries including Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar Library, University of Ibadan Library, Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Bibliothèque universitaire de Paris 1, and digital archives hosted by aggregators like JSTOR, national repositories such as Gallica and international library consortia. Print distribution extends through academic bookstores in Paris, Dakar, Abidjan, Casablanca and Cairo while scholars obtain copies through interlibrary loan services at networks like OCLC and document delivery systems run by British Library and Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Category:African studies journals Category:French-language journals