African Studies Program - Publications |
The African Studies Program publishes a wide range of materials dealing with African studies, including two area studies journals (Ghana Studies and Mande Studies), a historical journal (African Economic History), research monographs, edited collections, language texts, and annotated original source material. If you are interested in receiving electronic announcements from African Studies Publications when new titles or journal volumes become available, send an e-mail that includes your name and preferred e-mail address to publications@africa.wisc.edu. Use the following links to find what you are looking for on our site:
Click one of the following to see a list of available book titles and their current prices:
To order a title, print and complete the order form and mail it to African Studies Publications at the address below, or send the same information from the order form to us by e-mail, phone, or fax at the contact details listed below. There is a 20% discount for individuals ordering three or more titles. Books are mailed by BOOK RATE through the United States Postal Service. A standard fee of $5 per title is added for international orders to cover postage, or $20 for international orders requesting AIRMAIL service. For large order discounts and shipping, please contact us directly at publications@africa.wisc.edu. Wisconsin residents please add 5.5% sales tax. Make checks payable to "African Studies Program". African Studies Program - Publications Click on the journal links below to see the table of contents for recent volumes. The African Studies Program serves as host site for African Economic History, but not for Ghana Studies or Mande Studies. Clicking on these links will take you to the host servers for their sponsoring organizations, Ghana Studies Council and MANSA respectively. If you are interested in becoming a member of one of those organizations you can find out how on their websites. A membership benefit for either organization is a subscription to their journal. If you simply wish to purchase a particular journal volume, or become an individual subscriber to the journal, you can do this by contacting African Studies Publications at publications@africa.wisc.edu. African Economic History has no equivalent sponsoring organization and subscriptions are handled by African Studies Publications. See below for information on how to place an order or become a subscriber.
To order a journal volume or volumes, print off and complete the order form and mail it to us at the address below, or provide the required information from the order form to us by e-mail, phone or fax at the contact details listed below. If you wish to become a subscriber, please note this in your order. There is a 20% discount for individuals ordering three or more volumes in a single order. Journals are mailed by BOOK RATE through the United States Postal Service. A standard fee of $5 per title is added for international orders to cover postage, or $20 for international orders requesting AIRMAIL service. Wisconsin residents please add 5.5% sales tax. Make checks payable to "African Studies Program". African Studies Program - Publications A number of our titles are available through the Africana Digitization Project through the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. Although African studies is a relatively new discipline, the field has generated a large body of publications in the past 45 to 50 years. Most of these of course were published in garden-variety ways, in sufficient copies to remain reasonably available in today's much improved document-delivery environment. Nonetheless, there have been exceptions--materials that were published in limited, sometimes very limited, quantities, but which have produced a demand beyond the capacity of their initial print run to satisfy. In fact, fewer than ten copies were produced of some of the titles in this collection. Digitizing these then--and others like them--will significantly enhance their accessibility. More to the point, it will make it possible for researchers in Africa to secure access to them and thereby to circumvent--if only (so far) in a modest way--the longstanding and apparently indefinitely continuing "book famine." In a way, the present project could be seen as providing a template for further projects here and elsewhere. A few of the titles available in downloadable Adobe PDF format are:
Visit the Africana Digitization Project site (and the related Africa Focus: Sites and Sounds of a Continent) for further information. SUBMITTING YOUR MANUSCRIPT TO AFRICAN STUDIES If you would like to submit a manuscript or book proposal for consideration send the title and a one page summary to publications@africa.wisc.edu. |
