Africa Confidential
| Africa Confidential (formerly: Africa)
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| description | political journal |
| Area of Expertise | Africa: primarily politics , economy , governance , diplomacy , military , but also current events and analyzes |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Asempa Limited, Cambridge CB25 0JD, UK www.africa-confidential.com Terms and Conditions (English) (England) |
| First edition | as Africa 1960 , as Africa Confidential Vol. 1 (January 6, 1967 ) |
| Frequency of publication | fortnightly |
| Editor-in-chief | Patrick Smith www.africa-confidential.com Contact (English) Portrait |
| ISSN |
0044-6483 |
Africa Confidential is a biweekly UK magazine focusing on African countries. It was founded in 1960 as a print medium and is owned by the British company Asempa Limited . It is one of the oldest print media dealing with economic and security issues with regard to the African continent.
description
From 1960 to 1966 the magazine appeared in London under the name Africa . It has been called Africa Confidential since 1967 .
The magazine was founded in the era of rapidly advancing decolonization of Africa. Early reporting focused on the British, French and Belgian colonial areas. In the beginning, the magazine was owned by six people who did not want to influence the editorial work. Between 1962 and 1995 the magazine was under the direction of Judith Morison , who previously worked in the British Foreign Office. In 1981, Judith Morison became director and co-owner of the Miramoor Publications Board , along with James Lemkin (CBE), Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox (Duke of Richmond), Lord John Vernon , Charles Janson and later Xan Smiley, a former editor.
In January 1994 Blackwell Publishing took over Africa Confidential magazine in Oxford . Asempa Limited bought the magazine from this owner on July 17, 2006 . Asempa was founded by Patrick Smith and Bryan Pearson and means “good words” in the Ghanaian language Twi .
In 2007 the publication of a partner paper, Africa-Asia Confidential , began, which reports on the mutual relations between the two continents.
profile
There were never editorials. Instead, the authors were a diverse group of corporate executives, national politicians and analysts, diplomats , intelligence workers , academics, journalists, and NGO staff .
The magazine operates an online portal of the same name , which offers free access to short messages, selected texts and a country-specific catalog.
Editors
- Charles Janson (1960–1964)
- Richard Kershaw (1964–1968)
- Alan Rake (1968)
- Godfrey Morrison (1968–1977)
- Xan Smiley (1977-1981)
- Charles Meynell (1981-1986)
- Stephen Ellis (1986-1991)
- Patrick Smith (since 1991)
Since 1987 there has been the function of deputy editor, carried out by Gillian Lusk.
Individual evidence
- ^ Berlin State Library: online catalog.
- ^ Entry in the online catalog of the Australian National Library
- ^ Entry in the online catalog of the Australian National Library