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The Journal of Cultural Studies

Instructions to authors/ Instruction aux auteurs

Manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Cultural Studies should normally not exceed 25 A4 pages, typed double-spaced and in three (3) copies, a 3.5 floppy disk copy (MS-Dos compatible) inclusive. Bibliographic referencing within the text should indicate author, date and/or page, for example: ‘Women’s studies have emerged more recently in Africa...’ (Mama, 1996:3). The Bibliography should list all the works cited in the order of author, date, title, place of publication, and publisher, for example:

Mama, Amina. 1996. Women’s Studies and the Studies of Women in Africa During the 1990s. Dakar: Codesria.
Oha, Obododimma. 1999. ‘L. S. Senghor’s Feminisation of Africa and the Africanisation of Feminist Aesthetics’. In Journal of Cultural Studies, 1.1: 11 - 18.

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 of Cultural Studies should be original in content. They should not be u