Africa Yearbook

AEGIS supports the publication of the Africa Yearbook, an English-language periodical covering major political, economic and social developments in each sub-Saharan African country per calendar year. In addition, it includes sub-regional chapters and chapters on African-European relations and continent-wide developments. The Yearbook is aimed at a range of audiences including researchers, students, politicians, diplomats, journalists, teachers, development practitioners and those working in the private sector. 

The Africa Yearbook is published annually by Brill Academic Publishers. The Africa Yearbook is a continuation of the German-language ‘Afrika Jahrbuch’, published by the GIGA Institute for African Affairs in Hamburg, which issued its last yearbook in 2004.

You can order the Africa Yearbook from the publisher here.

The Yearbook is edited by African and European scholars based within universities on both continents.

Editors of the Africa Yearbook

Albert K. Awedoba (Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana)

David Sebudubudu (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Botswana)

Benedikt Kamski (Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut/Africa Centre for Transregional Research, University of Freiburg)

Andreas Mehler (Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut/Africa Centre for Transregional Research, University of Freiburg)

Latest volumes

For a full list of volumes published since 2005 see the Brill website.

Africa Yearbook Volume 18
Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2021
Volume: 18
Publication Date: 26 Sep 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51957-2

Africa Yearbook Volume 17
Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2020
Volume: 17
Publication Date: 15 Nov 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-50318-2

Africa Yearbook Volume 16
Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2019
Volume: 16
Volume Editors:
Publication Date: 25 Sep 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43001-3

Africa Yearbook Volume 15
Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2018
Volume: 15
Publication Date: 03 Oct 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41766-3