| Africa Yearbook | |
| Discipline: | Africa |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Brill Publishers |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Abbreviation: | Afr. Yearb. |
| Issn: | 1871-2525 |
| Eissn: | 1872-9037 |
The Africa Yearbook is an annual publication devoted to politics, economy and society south of the Sahara. It is the successor to the German-language Afrika Jahrbuch published by the Institut für Afrika-Kunde in Hamburg, which issued its last yearbook in 2004 (on the year 2003).[1]
The yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa – all related to developments in one calendar year. The Africa Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa) focusing on major cross-border developments and sub-regional organizations as well as one article on continental developments and one on European-African relations.
While the articles have thorough academic quality, the Yearbook is mainly oriented to the requirements of a large range of target groups: students, politicians, diplomats, administrators, journalists, teachers, practitioners in the field of development aid as well as business people.[2]
The Africa Yearbook received the Conover-Porter Award 2012 (best africana bibliography or reference work).[3]