Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review (EASSRR)
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Book Review Format (NEW)
E-mail:executive.secretary@ossrea.net
Editorial
Board
| Prof. Paul P. W. Achola | Dr. Gunnar Sørbø |
| Prof. Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed | Dr. Gerti Hessling |
| Prof. Abel G. M. Ishumi | Dr. Ibrahim Elbadawi |
| Dr. Evelyn Sandra Pangeti | Prof. Tyambe Zeleza |
| Prof. J. D. O. Nyunya | Dr. Abdulhamid Bedri Kello |
| Prof. Kwesi Prah | Prof. Wilfred Mlay |
| Dr. Darge Wole |
The
EASSRR
is a bi-annual journal that serves as a forum for scholarly discourse on the
social, economic, political and environmental aspects of Eastern and
Southern Africa. The journal first appeared in January 1985 and has since
been coming out regularly twice a year.
Eighteen
volumes of this journal have been published to date. Some of these issues
have been devoted to specific problems, such as the African Economic Crisis,
the Arusha Declaration Twenty Years After, Industrialization, and Population
Issues. Each issue is printed in 500 copies. Several institutions both in
Africa and outside subscribe the Review.
The
abstracts and TOC of each issue of the EASSRR are published online by the African
Journals Online (AJOL) Project, URL (http://www.inasp.org.uk/AJOL).
Access is free to all interested users.
Starting
with the January 2002 issue (vol. XVIII, no. 1), the full texts of each
issue of the EASSRR will be published online under Project Muse, URL (….
), through OSSREA’s
agreement with Michigan State University. African research and educational
institutions can apply to the Publisher, Johns Hopkins University (USA), to
get free access to the full-text documents. Other users have to subscribe
for online access to the documents. Full-text documents of most of the
issues of the EASSRR up to vol. 17, nos. 1 and 2 (January and June 2001) are
available online on this website (http://www.ossrea.net).
EASSRR
Editorial Policy
1.
The Eastern Africa Social
Science Research Review (EASSRR) serves social scientists in
Eastern and Southern Africa as a forum for reflective thinking and a vehicle
for the dissemination of the results of their research.
2.
The EASSRR publishes
research articles in the social sciences that contribute to scholarly
dialogue on the political, economic, social, environmental and other related
issues pertaining to the region. Apart
from their scholarly quality, therefore, the major criterion used for
selecting the articles to be published in EASSRR
is their contribution to the body of knowledge about the region.
3.
Because OSSREA is a
regional organisation, priority will be given to articles that deal with the
problems of the region or of countries within it.
However, articles concerned with other regions and countries within
the continent will also be considered for publication so long as they have
scholarly merit and provide a comparative insight.
4.
All articles submitted to the EASSRR
will be refereed by at least two scholars of proven competence in the
particular field/s. However,
the journal’s editors shall make the final decision regarding publication.
5.
The responsibility for the views expressed in the articles that
appear in the EASSRR is
solely that of their authors and not that of the editors or of OSSREA.
6.
The EASSRR does not
accept articles and other contributions that have previously been published.
7.
Articles submitted for publication in the EASSRR
must conform to the technical requirements set out in the “Guide
to Authors”.
8.
In addition to the regular issues, OSSREA
may publish special issues of the EASSRR
that are devoted to specific themes and based on contributions solicited by
the editors.
9.
All articles submitted to the EASSRR
will be acknowledged, but those not accepted for publication will not
be returned to the authors.
10.
Authors of published articles will receive two copies of the
particular issue and 10 offprints of their articles.
11.
The copyright in all the contributions published by OSSREA
is retained by the Organisation.
12.
OSSREA
shall consider the requests of authors to reprint their contributions
elsewhere provided that the request is made in writing and the conditions
stated in the copyright agreement are fulfilled.
1.
Manuscript Size
The
EASSRR publishes articles, book reviews and short communications.
The maximum length of manuscripts to be submitted to the journal is twenty-five
pages (double-spaced) for articles, and ten pages for book reviews. In
exceptional cases, longer manuscripts may be considered at the discretion of the
editors.
2.
Abstracts
All
articles should be accompanied by abstracts of not more than 100 words.
Abstracts should briefly state the nature of the problem, the
methodology,
and the findings or conclusions.
A
list of not more than five Keywords must be written immediately below the
abstract.
3.
Electronic and Hard Copies
In
as far as possible, manuscripts should be submitted on a
floppy disk or CD (typeset
using MS Word 6.0 or a later version) as well as in duplicate hard copies, typed
double-spaced on only one side of A4 size paper, and with a margin of at least
3cm left on either side of the page.
4.
Headings and Subheadings
4.1
If a manuscript has subsections, the following decimal notation should be
used for numbering the headings and subheadings:
1.
2.
3.
1.1
2.1
3.1
1.2
2.2
3.2
4.2
However, authors are advised to avoid using more than three levels
of subheadings unless the complexity of the argument warrants it.
5.
Endnotes
5.1 Authors are advised to use endnotes rather than footnotes.
5.2 Endnotes should be numbered consecutively throughout each chapter or article, and placed at the end of a work, in a section titled “Notes”, after any appendix and before the reference list.
6.
Text Citations
6.1
OSSREA uses the author-date
system of citations in all of its publications. It is the responsibility of
authors to ensure
that author-date
citations in the text agree exactly with corresponding entries in the reference
list and that all the facts are accurate.
6.2
The author-date citation in a running text or at the end of a block
quotation consists of the author’s/editor’s last, or family name, and the
year of publication. Examples:
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Author, year, page no.: (Anderson 1987, 22-25)
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Two sources, with one author having two works: (Emery 1999; Jenden 1978b)
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More than three authors/editors: (Kassoguè et al. 1996)
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Organisation, year, volume, page no.: (World Bank 1988, 2:47)
6.3
Citation and Documentation of Sources from the Internet.
Authors
should first make a note for the quoted paragraph, which should be placed in
quotation marks. For example:
According
to Peter Burnell, “Today, Zambia’s situation resembles much more closely
Sartori’s idea of a predominant system, where one party commands, alone and
over time, the absolute majority of seats, than a ‘hegemonic system’.’’1
The
documentation of sources in the References list or under “Endnotes” for
materials cited from the Web should include the names of both primary and
secondary sources (website address, titles of the article and of the
book/periodical), name(s) of the author/editor, as well as the date of access.
The entry under both the Endnotes and
the References should thus be written:
1.
Peter Burnell, 2001. The party system and party politics in Zambia: Continuities
past, present and future. In African
Affairs, 100, 239-263. Accessed on (date) from <http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/100/399/239.pdf>(24
January 2007), Royal African Society.
7.
References
7.1
The reference list must include all
and only those sources cited in the text and in the notes.
7.2
The reference list should provide full bibliographic information on the
cited sources and, where applicable, using the following order for books: (i)
author/s, or editor/s if no author is listed; (ii) date; (iii) title; (iv)
editor, if provided in addition to author; (vi) edition, if not the first one;
(vii) volume/s; (viii) title of individual volume; (ix) series title; (x) city;
(xi) publisher.
7.3
The details included in reference list entries for periodical articles
are: (i) author’s name; (ii) year; (iii) title of article; (iv) title of
periodical; (v) issue information (volume, issue number, month or season); (vi)
page reference.
7.4
Titles of books, periodicals, plays, and long poems are italicised,
whereas titles of book chapters, articles, short poems and the like are given in
roman style without being enclosed in
quotation marks. Unpublished works are not italicised.
7.5
Titles of periodicals are capitalised in headline style; all other titles
in the reference list are capitalised in the sentence style, i.e. only the first
letter of the first word in the title and subtitle, proper nouns and proper
adjectives is capitalised.
7.6
Examples of reference entries:
Adams,
M. N., and S. E. Kruppenbach. 1987. Gender and access in the African school. International
Review of Education 33: 437-53.
Apollos,
Francis, and Afi Yakubu. 1999. Revitalising traditional African approaches to
peace building and reconciliation during an armed conflict. Paper presented at
the All-Africa Conference on African Principles of Conflict Resolution and
Reconciliation, Addis Ababa, 8-12 November.
Lardner,
Susan. 1980. Third eye open. Review of The
salt eaters, by Tony Cade Bambra. New
Yorker, 5 May, 169.
Kassoguè,
A., M. Komota, J. Sagara, and F. Schutgens. 1996. A measure for every site:
Traditional SWC techniques on the Dogon Plateau, Mali. In Sustaining the soil: Indigenous soil and water conservation in Africa,
edited by C. Reji, I. Scoones, and C. Toulmin, 69-79. London: Earthscan
Publications.
Nganda,
Benjamin M. 1998. The equity objective in Kenyan health policy: An
interpretation. Eastern Africa Social
Science Research Review, 14, no. 1 (January): 65-89.
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Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa.
Book
Review Format
I.
Introduction:
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Introduce your review appropriately. Identify the author, the title, the main topic or issue presented in the book, and the author's purpose in writing the book.
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Explain Relationships. Establish your position as the reviewer (your thesis about the author's thesis). As you write, consider the following questions:
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What type of book is this? (Is the book a memoir, a treatise, a collection of facts, an extended argument, etc.? Is the article a documentary, a write-up of primary research, a position paper, etc.)?
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Who is the author? What does the preface or foreword tell you about the author's purpose, background, and credentials? What is the author's approach to the topic (as a journalist? a historian? a researcher?)?
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What is the main topic or problem addressed? How does the work relate to a discipline, to a profession, to a particular audience, or to other works on the topic? Who’s the audience for this book?
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What is your critical evaluation of the work (your thesis or stance)? Why have you taken that position? What criteria are you basing your position on?
II. Evaluate the book. This is the heart of your book review. You should discuss a variety of issues here:
- How
clearly is the book written?
- Did
the author achieve his goal?
How did he do this or fall short?
- What
are the author's most important points? List at least two examples of
how the author proved or did not prove points he was trying to make.
- What
possibilities does the book suggest for the reader?
- What
did the book leave out?
- How
the book compares to others on the subject?
- What
personal experiences do you have relating to the subject?
- What did you like best about the book? What did you like least about the book?
- Make
sure that you distinguish your personal views from that of the author.
III.
Conclusion. Tie together any issues raised in the review and provide a
concise comment on the book and whether or not you would recommend this book to
someone else.
There
is, of course, no set formula, but a
general rule of thumb is that the first one-half to two-thirds of the review
should summarize the author's main ideas while the remainder of the report
should evaluate the book.
IV.Length The recommended length is 800 words for a short review and 2000 words for a review article.
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EASSRR Vol. XXIII No.2 (June 2007) [TOC]
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EASSRR Vol. XXII No. 2 (June 2006) [TOC]
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EASSRR Vol. XXII No. 1 (January 2006) [TOC]
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EASSRR, Vol. XXI, No. 2 (June 2005) [TOC]
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EASSRR, Vol. XXI, No. 1 (January 2005) [TOC]
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EASSRR, vol. XXI, no. 1 (January 2005). [TOC]
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EASSRR, vol. XX, no. 2 (June 2004). [TOC]
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EASSRR, vol. XX, no. 1 (January 2004). [TOC]
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EASSRR, vol. XIX, no. 2 (June 2003). [TOC]
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EASSRR, vol. XIX, no. 1 (January 2003). [TOC]
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EASSRR, vol. XVIII, no. 2 (June 2002). [TOC]
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EASSRR, vol. XVIII, no. 1 (January 2002). [TOC]
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EASSRR, vol. XVII, no. 2 (June 2001). [TOC]
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EASSRR, vol. XVI, no. 2 (June 2000).
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EASSRR, vol. XVI, no. 1 (January 2000).
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EASSRR, vol. XV, no. 2 (June 1999).
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EASSRR, vol. XV, no. 1 (January 1999).
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EASSRR, vol. XIV, no. 2 (June 1998).
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EASSRR, vol. XIV, no. 1 (January 1998).
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EASSRR, vol. XIII, no. 2 (June 1997).
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EASSRR, vol. XIII, no. 1 (January 1997).
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EASSRR, vol. XII, no. 2 (June 1996).
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EASSRR, vol. XII, no. 1 (January 1996).
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EASSRR, vol. XI, no. 2 (June 1995).
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EASSRR, vol. XI, no. 1 (January 1995).
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EASSRR, vol. X, no. 2 (June 1994).
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EASSRR, vol. X, no. 1 (January 1994).
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EASSRR, vol. IX, no. 2 (June 1993).
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EASSRR, vol. IX, no. 1 (January 1993).
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EASSRR, vol. VIII, no. 2 (June 1992).
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EASSRR, vol. VIII, no. 1 (January 1992).
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EASSRR, vol. VII, no. 2 (June 1991).
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EASSRR, vol. VII, no. 1 (January 1991).
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EASSRR, vol. VI, no. 2 (June 1990).
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EASSRR, vol. VI, no. 1 (January 1990).
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EASSRR, vol. V, no. 2 (June 1989).
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EASSRR, vol. V, no. 1 (January 1989).
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EASSRR, vol. IV, no. 2 (June 1988).
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EASSRR, vol. IV, no. 1 (January 1988).
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EASSRR, vol. III, no. 2 (June 1987).
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EASSRR, vol. III, no. 1 (January 1987).
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EASSRR, vol. II, no. 2 (June 1986).
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EASSRR, vol. II, no. 1 (January 1986).
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EASSRR, vol. I, no. 2 (June 1985).
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EASSRR, vol. I, no. 1 (January 1985). [TOC]
