SUDANIC AFRICA
A Journal of Historical Sources
Sudanic Africa was an international academic journal devoted to
the presentation and discussion of historical sources on the Sudanic
belt, published in sixteen volumes between 1990 and 2007. It has now been
succeeded by the electronic journal Islamic Africa, published by Northwestern University Press from 2010 (the first issue is available in
open access).
Sudanic Africa was concerned with the
area between the Sahara and the Bay of Niger, the Atlantic and the
Indian Oceans. The journal presented historical sources relating to our
field of interest in the original language and in translation, with
comments.
Presented on the Web are table of contents for each of the sixteen
volumes as well as select articles, notes and communications and book
reviews.
Contents and sample articles
We have also a cumulative index of all articles in the printed as well
as on-line version of the journal, listing authors and titles of
articles, notes and of the books reviewed, as well as of the topics
discussed in the articles.
Index of articles
The files are in Adobe Acrobat format. If your browser does not already
have this pre-installed, download the required (free) plugin from here.
The journal no longer accepts subscriptions. For current subscriptions to Islamic Africa, see its Subscription details.
Back issues of most volumes of Sudanic Africa are available from Bergen for the price of,
for individuals:
$20 / £15
for institutions:
$30 / £20Back issue payment can be made by
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- Bank transfer to account (Norway): SWIFT: DNBANOKKXXX, IBAN: NO23 0530 2094 316
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Send all communications concerning back issues to
Sudanic Africa
Centre for Middle Eastern Studies
University of Bergen
PO Box 7805
N-5020 Bergen,
Norway
fax +47-5558 9891
E-mail: post@smi.uib.no
The editors of Sudanic Africa were:
knut.vikor@ahkr.uib.no (Knut S.
Vikør)
jhunwick@mac.com (John Hunwick)
sean.ofahey@ahkr.uib.no (R.S. O'Fahey)
stefan.reichmuth@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
(Stefan Reichmuth)
jspauldi@turbo.kean.edu (Jay Spaulding)
scott.reese@nau.edu (Scott Reese, Reviews editor)
Sudanic Africa was a peer-reviewed journal.
Texts and Sources
A series of monographs also exists under the imprint of Sudanic
Africa. It contains sources for the study of Africa in and the regions
south of the Sahara.
- Knut S. Vikør, Sources for Sanusi Studies: Contents
-- Introduction
- Fontes Historiae Africanae Bulletin of Information: Selected articles
1979-1987 (issue 13 of the journal SAJHS).
The "Texts and Souces" series is distributed by
C. Hurst &
Co (Publishers) Ltd.,
38 King Street, London WC2E 8JT, UK
Email: hurst@atlas.co.uk.
Web archive of Texts and sources
On the Sudanic Africa website is also an archive of texts and sources
relating to our area.
One is a survey
of language usage in the Nuba mountain region of the Sudan, made by Herman
Bell.
Available is also an archive of primary and secondary material on Darfur, its
history and cultures, made by Seán O'Fahey.
Back issue orders
Currently, these volumes are available:
1, 1990
2, 1991
3, 1992
4, 1993 (Special issue on Kano)
8, 1997
9, 1998
10, 1999
11, 2000
12, 2001
13, 2002 (Fontes Historiae Africanae Bulletin of Information: Selected articles
1979-1987)
14, 2003
15, 2004 (Language in Africa)
16, 2005
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