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Submissions should be sent to The Editor, English Studies in Africa, Department of English, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS, 2050, South Africa. The editor can be contacted on email: Michael.Titlestad@wits.ac.za.

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Referencing

The style of English Studies in Africa accords in almost all respects with the current MLA Guide. Endnotes, titled ‘Notes', are used, and a final bibliographic list is given as ‘Works Cited'.

o       Titles of single-authored works

Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994.

Freud, Sigmund. ‘Mourning and Melancholia'. The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Vol. 14. Ed. James Strachey. London: Hogarth, 1957. 243–258.

Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. 1961. Trans. Constance Farrington. New

York: Grove Press, 1968.

o       Titles of multiple-authored works

Alexander, Jocelyn, JoAnn McGregor, and Terence Ranger. Violence and Memory: One Hundred Years in the ‘Dark Forests' of Matabeleland. Harare: Weaver Press, 2000.

o       Articles

 Bradford, Helen. ‘Women, Gender and Colonialism: Rethinking the History of the British Cape Colony and Its Frontier Zones, c. 1806–70'. Journal of African History 37, 1996: 351–370.

Hunter, Eva. ‘“Shaping the Truth of the Struggle”: An Interview with Yvonne Vera'. Current Writing 10.1, 1998: 75–86.

o       Book chapters

Bryce, Jane. ‘“Survival Is in the Mouth”: Interview with Yvonne Vera, 1 August 2000, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe'. Sign and Taboo: Perspectives on the Poetic Fiction of Yvonne Vera. Ed. Robert Muponde and Mandi Taruvinga. Harare: Weaver Press, 2002. 217–226.

o       Internet sources

Media Monitoring Project of Zimbabwehttp://www.mmpz.org.zw/finalpirfbimonthlyreport/index11.html . Bimonthly Report, March 2004. Accessed 14 November 2006.

Where more than one text by a particular author is cited, the title should be reduced to a key word, and should be followed by the page number; as in (Barbarians 34) for a work or (‘Terrors' 12) for an article or chapter. Where a page number does not suffice to indicate which text is being cited, the author's or authors' name or names should be given, as in (Pearson 20) or (Smith and Plomer 18).