Transition (journal)
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| description | African and Cultural Studies |
| publishing company | Indiana University Press , Bloomington , IN |
| First edition | 1961 |
| Frequency of publication | quarterly |
| Sold edition | 1,100 copies |
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| Editor-in-chief | Laurie Calhoun |
| editor | Wole Soyinka |
| Web link | dubois.fas.harvard.edu/transition-magazine |
| Article archive | Selected items |
| ISSN |
0041-1191 |
| ZDB | 798612-9 |
Transition is an American magazine with African roots, whose readership consists primarily of black intellectuals. The magazine appears quarterly in English and was founded in 1961 by Rajat Neogy in Kampala, Uganda as a monthly magazine. Today, Transition includes contributions on African American debates, prose and contemporary art, and photography. The journal has been published in the US since 1991, today by Indiana University Press (IUP) in Bloomington , Indiana .
Transition had to relocate its headquarters to the Ghanaian Accra soon after the founding of Uganda , as the Ugandan government persecuted the magazine as "subversive". Transition quickly became the leading intellectual magazine in Africa, among others the Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere and the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe , but also Americans such as the writers James Baldwin and Paul Theroux , the poet Langston Hughes and the intellectual Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The future Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka was editor-in-chief of Transition in the 1970s. In 1976 the magazine was discontinued for the time being.
Transition has been published again since 1991, with Oxford University Press in New York until 2007 , and with IUP in Bloomington since 2008. The Transition issues are now published quarterly and each have a thematic focus, which includes the text and photos of the issue. The priorities of the past were, for example, Theodor Adorno, African Art or bisexuality.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ IUP Ratecard Fall 2008/2009 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved February 26, 2009.)
- ^ Richard Bernstein: African Oriented: Reviving a Magazine Of Change and Ideas . In: New York Times, May 14, 1991.
