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Quest 

An African Journal of Philosophy

Revue Africaine de Philosophie

 

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EDITORIAL (2012): THE RESUSCITATION OF QUEST

Since early 2009, when the last three annual volumes (XX, XXI. XXII. 2006, 2007, 2008) of Quest: An African Journal of Philosophy / Revue Africaine de Philosophie were published, our journal has gone through a bumpy patch. The same year saw the end of the five-year hospitality agreement between this journal and the African Studies Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands. The Editor had negotiated this agreement in 2004 (as the only successful outcome of a long series of international applications for subsidy), and though it had failed to bring the secretarial and administrative assistance so badly needed, it had at least paid for printing and postage. We thank the African Studies Centre for its loyal support over these five years. Against the background of the international financial crisis from 2008 onward, revenue from subscriptions, sale of back issues, and reprint fees dwindled, and costs of printing, web design, hosting and postage were mounting. Meanwhile Quest was enjoying ever greater popularity on the part of established and junior contributors, and also the quality of the articles submit­ted went from strength to strength. Under those circumstances the Editorial Board saw no alternative but to sit back and wait until the financial situation would clear up sufficiently to produce, dispatch and host new annual volumes. In 2011-2012 the felicitous reprint of three Quest articles in the Eboussi Boulaga Festschrift, and the fees secured in that connection through the good services of Professor Valentin Mudimbe (Member of the Advisory Editorial Board) seemed to bode better times for our journal; but then the Editor went down with serious illness for two periods of half a year each. By the end of 2012, these medical hurdles had finally been taken, and three new annual volumes are now lined up for imminent publication, before the middle of 2013 – one under the guest editorship of Professor Thaddeus Metz from South Africa. A cheaper production process yet more attractive format were meanwhile initiated, of which the present double annual volume XXIII / XXIV is the first implementation. For rather than already bringing out these three volumes, we decided that we should first devote the present combined annual volume XXIII-XXIV (2009-2010) to a long-standing book project of the Editor, in honour of his 65th birthday, and in recognition of his contributions to Quest and to the sake of African philosophy over the past decade. The book’s anti-hegemonic, anti-Eurocentric approach to long-range transcontinental philosophy from an African perspective is a fitting expression of the spirit of Quest, and a significant contribution to the global history of philosophy.

While the digital version of Vols XXIII-XXIV is already made available at the Quest website, the printed version is currtently with the printer's and will be dispatched to subscribers by mid-April 2013.

Introduction (homepage)

Topicalities: Colloquium 'The transcultural framework for the construction of African knowledges' 23-3-04 / Actualités: Colloque 'Le cadre transculturel pour la construction des connaissances africaines' 23-3-2004

Contact information / Adresses

Editorial team/ Équipe éditorial  

Directions for contributors / Directions pour les contributeurs

Forum/Tableaux des messages

Access the Internet volumes of Quest  / Accès aux volumes Internet de Quest

Subscriptions (printed version only -- Internet version is free)/ Abonnements (version imprimée seulement -- la version Internet est gratuite)

You are already a subscriber to the printed version of Quest / Vous etes déjà abonné à la version imprimée de Quest

Cumulative contents of Quest / Table de matières cumulative de Quest

Ordering back copies / Disponibilité et commande des numéros antérieurs

Conferences/Conférences

Other activities / Autres activités

Miscellaneous / Objets divers

TXT files / Fichiers non-formattés 

Dossier Quest

Use and reprint of Quest articles (©)

Electronic form for referees (password protected)

 

Access to Quest volumes online (PDF) /

Acces aux volumes Quest (PDF) sur Toile

 the standard format of Quest online is PDF / PDF, format préféré des fichiers Quest

get / obtenez: Adobe Acrobat Reader®.

if you find you cannot handle PDF files (e.g. because you are working from a cyber café),  then click here for a solution: access to unformatted TXT files of Quest 

si vous trouvez que vous ne pouvez pas utiliser les fichiers PDF (e.g. vous visitez cette page dans un cybercafé), cliquez ici  pour une solution (accès aux  fichiers non-formattés de Quest

In January 2006, we completed the first phase of the retrodigitalisation of Quest volumes. This means that all volumes ever published (I-XIX) are now integrally available on the web! Our special thanks go to the Library and Documentation of the African Studies Centre, Leiden, Netherlands, for technical and financial assistance in this major achievement. Currently, we are still working on detailed Tables of Contents allowing for clickable links to separate articles, for the volumes I to XII (1987-1998). Please realise that the PDFs for entire issues or volumes may very large, i.e. 2 to 40 Mb. Therefore, rather than trying to read online, first download such a file onto your own computer, using the ´Save Target As...´ facility under the righthand mouse button

Volume I 1987 (PDF) Volume II 1988 (PDF)
Volume III 1989 (PDF) Volume IV 1990 (PDF)
Volume V 1991 (PDF) Volume VI 1992 (PDF)
Volume VII 1993 (PDF) Volume VIII 1994 (PDF)
Volume IX 1995 (PDF) Volume X 1996 (PDF)
Volume XI 1997 (PDF) Volume XII 1998 (PDF)
Volume XIII 1999 (PDF) Volume XIV 2000 (PDF)
Volume XV 2001 (PDF) Volume XVI 2002 (PDF)
Volume XVII 2003 (PDF) Volume XVIII 2004 (PDF)
Volume XIX 2005 (PDF) Volume XX (2006) PDF
Volume XXI (2007) PDF Volume XXII (2008) PDF
Volumes XXIII-XXIV (2009-2010) PDF (actually published 2012)  
   

Note: if you wish to acces Quest online but you find you cannot read PDF files, you can access unformatted TXT files instead (click)

Si vous désirez consulter les volumes Quest online mais trouvez que vous ne pouvez pas lire les fichiers PDF, cliquez ici pour les fichiers non-formattés (TXT)  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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