African Diaspora & African Literatures: Current Journals and Blogs

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• African American review. (Online) (Terre Haute, Ind.: Dept. of English, Indiana State University, c1992-)


• African and black diaspora. (Online). [Abingdon] : Routledge ; DePaul, IL: DePaul University. Center for Black Diaspora, 2008--


• African literature today. (London: Heinemann; New York: Africana Pub. Co., c1968-)


• African renaissance (Online). (London: Adonis &Abbey, c2004-)


• African writing. (Online) (Nottingham, UK: Fonthouse Ltd., 2007- ) --via the Internet.


• Africultures: le site et la revue de référence des cultures africaines. (Paris: L'association Africultures.)
  --via the Internet.
  For recent print issues, search in CLIO using keyword "Africultures"


• Afro-Hispanic review: publication of the Afro-Hispanic Institute. (Washington, D.C.: The Institute, c1981-)
  • See also: Afro-Hispanic review. (Online): 1982 to present.


• ALA bulletin: a publication of the African Literature Association. (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: The Association, 1982-2006.)


• Anthurium: a Caribbean studies journal. (Online) (Coral Gables, Fla.: University of Miami, c2003-) --via the Internet.


• Black book review, The. (Online) (New York, NY: QBR, c1995-2005)


• Black issues book review. (Online) (Fairfax, VA: Cox, Matthews and Associates, c1999-2007)


• Black American literature forum. (Online) (Terre Haute, Ind.: School of Education, Indiana State University, 1976-1991)


• Black masks. (Online) (Bronx, NY: Beth Turner, 1984-)


• Black renaissance/Renaissance noire. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996-)
  --See also: Black renaissance. (Online)


• Brittle paper. (Online) (Madison, Wisconsin: 2012-)


• Callaloo. (Online) (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976-)


• The Caribbean writer (Online). (St. Croix, V.I.: Caribbean Research Institute, c1987-)


• Caribe: revista de cultura y literatura. (Milwaukee, Wis.: Marquette University, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 1998-)


• Chimurenga. (Cape Town: Pan African Market, 2002-2008.)
  --See also: Chronic Chimurenga, 2013- and the current web version


• Continents manuscrits : génétique des textes littéraires : Afrique, Caraïbe, diaspora. (Paris, 2014--)


• Current writing. (Durban, South Africa: Dept. of English, University of Natal, 1989- )


• English in Africa. (Online) (Grahamstown, South Africa, 1974--)


• Ethiopiques: revue négro-africaine de littérature et de philosophie. (Dakar, Sénégal: Ethiopiques, 1975- )
  • See also: Ethiopiques. (Online) --via the Internet.


• Études littéraires africaines. 1996 to present online. (Paris)


• International journal of Africana studies. (Online): the journal of the National Council for Black Studies.
  (Includes "Afrocentric scholar" ) Back issues 1992-2007, via Black Studies Center


• James Baldwin review. (Online) (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2015--)


• Johannesburg review of books, The. (Online) (Johannesburg, South Africa: 2017--)


• Journal of the African Literature Association: JALA. (Online) (Philadelphia, PA: The Association, 2007- )


• Journal of Caribbean literatures. (Online) (Cedar Falls, IA: M.A. Lee, 1997- )


• Journal of West Indian literature. (Online) (Bridgetown, Barbados: Dept. of English, University of the West Indies, c1986-)


• Kalahari review (Gaborone, Botswana: 2011-)


• Kola: a black literary magazine. (Online) (Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada : Black Writers' Guild, 1987-) --via Gale Academic


• Langston Hughes review. (Online) (Providence, R.I.: Afro-American Studies Program, Brown University, c1982-)


• MaComère. (Online) (Harrisonburg, Va.: Association of Caribbean Women Writers &Scholars, 1998- )


• MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. (Los Angeles, Calif.: Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 1974--)


• New contrast. (Cape Town: SA Literary Journal, Ltd., 1990-)


• Obsidian III. (Online) (Raleigh, NC: Dept. of English, North Carolina State University, 1999-2006)
  • See also: Obsidian II. (Online): 1986-1999 ; Obsidian: literature and arts in the African Diaspora (2015-2021) ;
    Butler Stacks: Obsidian: 1975-1981, Obsidian II: 1986-1997.


• Présence africaine. (Paris: 1967 to present)
  --See also: 1949-1961
  --Plus: 1947-2020 online, via Cairn.info


• QBR: The Black Book Review. (Online) (Hastings-on-Hudson, New York: QBR, 1992-) --via the Internet.


• Research in African literatures. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1970-)
  • See also: Research in African literatures (Online): 1970 to present.


• Small axe. (Online): A Caribbean journal of criticism. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998-)


• Transition. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press; Kampala, Uganda, 1961-
  • See also: Transition. (Online) (Kampala, Uganda)>


• Wasafiri. (London: Instructa, 1984 to present)
  --See also: Online, 1997 to present


• World literature today. (Online) (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 1977-)