This article is about the journal of this title. For the scholarly field of study, see
African studies.
Academic journal
African Studies is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal publishing articles in the fields of anthropology, linguistics, history, sociology, politics, geography, and literary and cultural studies. It was founded in 1921 under the title Bantu Studies.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is indexed in Sociological Abstracts, International Political Science Abstracts, Applied Social Science Index, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Current Bibliography on African Affairs, and Abstracts in Anthropology.