| Africa | |
| Abbreviation: | Africa (Rome) |
| Discipline: | African studies |
| Language: | English, French, Italian |
| Publisher: | Centro Studi per i Popoli Extraeuropei "Cesare Bonacossa" (University of Pavia) |
| Country: | Italy |
| History: | 1946–2010, 2019–present |
| Frequency: | Biannual |
| Impact: | 0.3 |
| Impact-Year: | 2022 |
| Issnlabel: | Africa (2019–present) |
| Issn: | 2612-3258 |
| Eissn: | 2612-6702 |
| Jstor: | 26123258 |
| Lccn: | 2019224052 |
| Oclc: | 1264525559 |
| Issn2label: | Africa (1946–2010) |
| Issn2: | 0001-9747 |
| Website: | https://www.viella.it/riviste/testata/15/ |
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 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.
issues from the years 1950–2009 and 2019–2021 can be read at JSTOR.[4]
This journal should not be confused with the bimonthly magazine Africa, La rivista del continente vero.[5]
The journal is abstracted and indexed in EBSCO databases,[6] ProQuest databases,[6] and Scopus (2019–2022).[7]