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| Title: | The Scholarly Journal in the Production and Dissemination of Knowledge on Africa: Exploring Some Issues for the Future |
| Author: | Adebowale, Sulaiman A. |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Periodical: | African Sociological Review (ISSN 1027-4332) |
| Volume: | 5 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 1-16 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | African studies periodicals Bibliography/Research Education and Oral Traditions Literature, Mass Media and the Press Publishing and Book Trade Academic writing Scholarly publishing African literature Internet |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24487352 |
| Abstract: | In the last three decades, questions of choice and relevance - of what to study, and by and for whom and how - have become more strident in the research and publishing of African sciences and humanities. These questions have divided the discourse into blocs: structuralist, developmentalist, modernist, political economy versus poststructuralist, postmodernist, post-Fordist. The present paper analyses the patterns in scholarly enquiry on Africa in the 1980s and 1990s by assessing the focus of four multidisciplinary scholarly journals: Africa Development, Cahiers d'études africaines, Canadian Journal of African Studies, and Journal of Modern African Studies. The paper is divided into four parts: 1) a brief description of the development and the role of the scholarly journal; 2) an analysis of the medium in Africa today; 3) a description of methodology and the tools for gathering data for this study; and 4) an examination of the findings in relation to issues and trends in contemporary publishing. Bibliogr., notes. |
