Dear Colleague,
CALL FOR PAPERS.
We write to encourage your participation in the
next issues of the JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES.The
journal made its first and second appearances in the
third quarters of 1999 and 2000 respectively, and we
are already working towards two issues for next year.
Our proposed subjects for 2001 are:
Vol. 3, No. 1 - AFRICA AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE
Possible themes are:
-Autochthonous Epistemologies and Modes of
Transmission
-Colonialism and the Imposition of Western
Epistemologies.
-Colonial Legacies and the Myth of the Post-Colonial
in African Institutions of Learning.
-Africa's Autochthonous Theories and the Limits of
Western Experience.
-African Experiences and the Limits of Western
Theories.
-Methodological Politics and Crises.
-Ethnicity in Knowledge Production and Transmission.
-Gender in Knowledge Production and Transmission.
-Religious Categorisations and the Images of
Knowledge.
-Epistemological Politics and the Crises of
Intellectual and Material Development.
Deadline for submission: 30 November 2000
Publication date: March 2001.
VOL.3,No. 2 - MASS CULTURE IN AFRICA.
Possible themes are:
-Theoretical Currents of Mass Culture in Africa
-The Evolution of Mass Society in Africa
-The Culture Industry in Africa
-Mass Culture and the Democratisation Project
-Mass Culture and Totalitarian Society
-Mass Culture and the Praxis of Economic Development
-The Dialectics of Cultural Pluralism
-Gender Dimensions in Mass Culture
-Africa in the Global Cultural Marketplace
-Mass Culture and Regional Integration
Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2001
Publication date: July 2001.
We wish that contributors would be quite incisive in
delineating theoretical and practical implications of
their studies. Though our focus is on Africa, we would
welcome contributions which explore any of the themes
in the context of some comparison with Africa. We
would also publish some other studies, which do not
necessarily focus on Africa but are relevant to the
continent's contemporary experiences.
Submissions from young but promising scholars are
encouraged. We would be particularly pleased to
receive
more manuscripts from outside Nigeria. Each paper
should normally not exceed 25 A4 pages, typed
double-spaced and in three copies, a diskette copy
(MS-Dos compatible)inclusive. The bibliography should
list all the works cited in the order of author, date,
title, place of publication, and publisher. An
abstract of between 150 and 200 words and a cover
page, which indicates the full name and brief bio-data
of the author should accompany each submission. The
cover page should be typed separately from the
manuscript, which will be sent out, under anonymity,
to assessors.
Papers submitted to the Journal should be original
both in content and in terms of consideration for
publication. Papers under consideration by any other
publication may not be submitted to the Journal.
The editors also welcome review articles, book and
film
reviews,and original creative writings. Each
contributor is entitled to 10 offprints of his or her
article and a copy of the issue in which the article
appears.
All submissions should be sent to:
Udu Joseph Yakubu,
Journal of Cultural Studies,
C/o Department of English
Ogun State University,
P.M.B. 2002,
Ago-Iwoye,
NIGERIA.
We will also welcome submissions sent by
electronic mail to:
yakubj@yahoo.com
We thank you for your cooperation.
Yours sincerely,
Udu Joseph Yakubu
(For Editorial Collective)
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