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What is postamble?

postamble is a peer-reviewed graduate student journal with a focus on the multidisciplinary study of Africa. Our mission is to provide a platform for students from accross the globe to publish high-quality and original research about Africa. postamble welcomes submissions on a range of topics that demonstrate critical intellectual engagement with African issues and concerns.
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postamble is a valuable and noteworthy initiative on the part of past and present graduate students of the Centre for African Studies. It brings together the substance of the Centre’s core intellectual project with the creativity, drive, and intellectual excellence of the editors, who are approaching the multi-disciplinary study of Africa in sometimes new and radical ways. As a peer-reviewed academic journal, postamble is growing from strength to strength with each new issue, and will continue to provide a useful platform from which locally and internationally emerging scholars can begin to build and shape their publication records. – Endorsed by Professor Brenda Cooper, Director of the Centre for African Studies

Vol. 4 No. 1 (August 2008)

Visit our online archive to browse the latest issue of postamble.

Vol. 4 No. 1, Science, Technology and Society in Africa, deals with questions of photography and the colonial archive, weblogs and online authorship, the construction of madness in one of Chinua Achebe's novels, new social movements and the internet, amongst other themes. The issue also contains of a photographic essay, an interview and two book reviews. postamble subscribes to an open-access publication model, which means all publications are freely available for downloading from this website.

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Why sign up as a postamble site user?
5/13/2008

With the postamble website beginning to take shape, so dawns the task of inviting our readership to a further engagement with the journal and its editors. The new site has a number of key functionalities, which were designed to create alternative spaces for intellectual engagement by editors, read more »

New space of intellectual engagement for postamble
4/9/2008

As a long-time editor of postamble, and the current managing editor, publishing the work of graduate students who are thinking Africa differently has been an important exercise in getting to grips with the notion of knowledge production in Africa. 
 
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New website is live!
1/6/2008

Welcome to postamble's new website!  The site is still in the final stages of development so please bear with us as we finish up.

The current issue of postamble is available on our old site: www.africanstudies.uct.ac.za/postamble/.

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