Africa (Italian journal)

*Africa*
Discipline	African studies
Language	English, French, Italian
Publication details
History	1946–2010, 2019–present
Publisher	Centro Studi per i Popoli Extraeuropei "Cesare Bonacossa" (University of Pavia) (Italy)
Frequency	Biannual
Impact factor	0.3 (2022)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Africa (Rome)
Indexing;
	Africa (2019–present)
ISSN	2612-3258 (print); 2612-6702 (web);
LCCN	2019224052
JSTOR	26123258
OCLC no.	1264525559
	Africa (1946–2010)
ISSN	0001-9747;
Links
	Journal homepage;

Africa: Rivista semestrale di studi e ricerche (Africa (Rome) or Africa (Italy)) is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering African studies. The journal was established in 1946 and published quarterly until 2010. It was subtitled Rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione dell'Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente and was published by the Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient.^[1] Editors-in-chief included Teobaldo Filesi, who in 1965 chose a Humanities approach, and Gianluigi Rossi [it] who maintained this orientation since 1994.^[2] After a hiatus, the journal was revived in 2019, published by Viella Editrice on behalf of the Centro Studi per i Popoli Extraeuropei “Cesare Bonacossa” (University of Pavia).^[3]

The journal features articles, notes and reports, and book reviews, written in English, French, or Italian.

As of 2023^[update] issues from the years 1950–2009 and 2019–2021 can be read at JSTOR.^[2]^[4]

This journal should not be confused with the bimonthly magazine Africa, La rivista del continente vero.^[5]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in EBSCO databases,^[6] ProQuest databases,^[6] and Scopus (2019–2022).^[7]

Affrica: Rivista mensile di interessi affricani, Volume 7, issue 1, January 1952
Africa: Rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione dell'Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, Volume 65, issues 1–4. March–December 2010. Table of contents.