''Annales Aequatoria'' was an annual

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and d ...

that covered studies on the languages, societies, and history of

Central Africa Central Africa is a subregion of the African continent comprising various countries according to different definitions. Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, ...

in general and the

Congo Congo or The Congo may refer to either of two countries that border the Congo River in central Africa: * Democratic Republic of the Congo, the larger country to the southeast, capital Kinshasa, formerly known as Zaire, sometimes referred to a ...

in particular. The journal was established in 1937 under the title ''Aequatoria''. It was published in Coqhuilhatville,

Belgian Congo The Belgian Congo (french: Congo belge, ; nl, Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960. The former colony adopted its present name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in 1964. Colo ...

, (now Mbandaka,

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...

) from 1937 to 1962. After a long pause, it was resuscitated from 1980 to 2009 with 30 new volumes published by the Centre Aequatoria under the title ''Annales Aequatoria''. In 2009, ''Annales Aequatoria'' ceased publication, but the volumes from 1980-2009 are available online. The journal is abstracted and indexed in: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, and Language and Language Behavior Abstracts.

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