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Academics and others with specialist knowledge of African affairs are welcome to submit contributions to African Studies. Contributions should be submitted in English and adhere to the following criteria:

Books for review should be sent to Professor Tom Lodge, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. Email: tom.lodge@ul.ie.

Articles for publication should be in MS Word or recent, compatible software format, and ideally, sent electronically to the Editor at clive.glaser@wits.ac.za.

All hard copy contributions (with accompanying 3.5 2S 2D diskette) and other correspondence should be addressed to the Editor, African Studies, Department of History, University of the Witwatersrand, Wits 2050, South Africa.

A short review (about 100 words) of the contributor's present occupation and research interests and a physical contact address, and if available, an email address must accompany the manuscript.

The maximum length of any article should be 10,000 words.

The manuscript and references should be written in UK English and typed in 12-point font. Highly stylised formatting should be avoided. Maps, diagrams and graphs essential to the subject of the article should be camera-ready. These should be saved as separate files, rather than included in the text, with the preferred point of insertion labelled in the text.

African Studies follows the Harvard referencing system. All references to books, articles and statistical sources should be identified at the appropriate point in the text (African Studies 2006). When the author of the reference is named as part of the text itself, the year is placed in parentheses, for example 'Smith (2006) says ...'. When a page number is provided, the convention is (Smith 2006:27) - no space between the colon and the page number.

Complex primary source references, which are not suitable to the Harvard system, can be placed in endnotes.

Direct quotations in the text should have single quotation marks. The citation for direct quotes follows the end quotation mark and precedes the period. Quotations longer than three lines should be indented and do not need quotation marks. The citation for this quote follows the period.

References. Ensure that the in-text citations correspond correctly to the full citations in the References, which must appear at the end of the manuscript, in alphabetical order of first author. Examples:

Butler, J., Rotberg, R. and Adams, J. 1977. The Black Homelands of South Africa: The Political and Economic Development of Bophuthatswana and KwaZulu. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Book
Holman, M. 2005. Last Order at Harrods: An African Tale. Edinburgh: Polygon.

Chapter in a book
Noordeen, S.K. 1994. 'Epidemiology', in R. Hastings (ed), Leprosy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Journal article
Freund, W.M. 1996. 'Economic History in South Africa: An Introductory Overview'. South African Historical Journal 34:127-150.

Conference paper
Dubow, Saul. 2005. 'Smuts, the UN and the Problem of Race'. Paper for conference 'Whose International Community? Universalism and the Legacies of Empire'. Columbia University, 29-30 April.

End notes (not footnotes) should be used only for substantive observations.

All contributions are refereed. Only those contributions receiving favourable recommendations will be accepted for publication.

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