''African and Black Diaspora'' is a biannual peer-reviewed

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covering African and Black studies, as well as research on the African diaspora. It was established in 2008 and is published by

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. The

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are Fassil Demissie (

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) and Sandra Jackson (DePaul University). The first academic journal to address directly the needs of scholars working in the field of African Diaspora studies, it publishes research articles, commentaries and book reviews."African and Black Diaspora"
at The Africa Desk.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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Special issues

The journal has produced special issues, sometimes guest-edited, that have subsequently been published as books by Routledge.

References

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