After another good year in 2018, we are pleased to announce some important developments that the journal will mark as we enter volume 13.
First, after much consultation and consideration, we are inaugurating a new Editorial Advisory Board. We are extremely grateful to the members of the journal’s founding advisory board, who supported the journal from its launch in 2007. Since that time, our readership has steadily expanded, and the journal has seen a dramatic increase in submission rates. Members of the Editorial Advisory Board held an inaugural meeting with the Editors at the ASAUK conference at the University of Birmingham in September 2018. Following the expansion of the Editorial team in 2016, we look forward to working with the Editorial Advisory Board in the review process, and in steering more great scholarship towards the journal.
Second, after eight years as Editor, Dr Michael Jennings will be stepping down from his role. His co-editors gratefully recognise his work on the journal, and his role in helping to drive its growth since 2011. Dr Jennings will continue to be involved with the journal as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board, and we look forward to benefitting from his guidance in that role.
Third, we are pleased to welcome Dr Emma Hunter as Editor to succeed Dr Jennings. Dr Hunter holds the post of Senior Lecturer in African History at the University of Edinburgh, where her research is focused on the political, intellectual and cultural history of twentieth-century Africa, in a global context. Dr Hunter’s research also explores the history of print cultures, particularly the Swahili language in East Africa. She has a specialist focus on Tanzania.
Fourth, we will be changing the email address for submissions and editorial correspondence. The new address is: [email protected] Please refer to the submission guidelines on our website for more information, as well as for style sheets and templates.
These changes will support the journal’s continued growth and development. We are pleased to launch volume 13 with a special collection on ‘digital publics in Africa’, which illustrates the journal’s role in promoting interdisciplinary and empirically rich scholarship about – and written by scholars from across – Eastern Africa. We look forward to further special collections this year on ‘winner-take-all politics’ in Kenya and ‘customary authority’ in Central and Eastern Africa.
Finally, we would like to thank our publisher, Taylor & Francis, our sponsors, the British Institute in Eastern Africa, and most of all you, our readers, for your continued support for the journal.