About AfricaFocus
Last updated June 2021
This website, edited by William Minter, features high-quality analysis and progressive advocacy on African issues,
with particular attention to priority issues affecting the entire continent.
The heart of the website is the AfricaFocus Bulletin produced and
distributed 2 to 3 times a month to over 3,000 subscribers, including
individuals, organizations, and listservs. Current issues are featured on the homepage;
a full archive is also available on the site.
Other features also include regularly updated news feeds
from the BBC's Africa service and AllAfrica.com, and a set of country pages
with extensive background and links on each African country. The site is fully searchable.
Note: Not connected but also recommended is the audiovisual site
Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent, produced by the University of
Wisconsin-Madison Libraries and African Studies Program.
News Feeds
The news feeds on the right hand side of the homepage are supplied by the
BBC and by
allafrica.com. They are available freely to any website with the technical
capacity to use RSS news feeds.
As adapted for AfricaFocus, these feeds include the most recent BBC Africa news
at the top right. The middle two boxes contain the latest AllAfrica news on debt, AIDS, or conflict, and on five
African regions. The featured topic changes every 20 minutes, while the featured region
changes every 12 minutes. If you have cookies enabled in your browser, you can customize the
final box on the right to provide the latest allafrica news from a country or region you select.
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The AfricaFocus Bulletin and website are not subsidized by any government,
foundation, or organization. Sustaining and expanding these free services depends
on support from readers like you.
To support AfricaFocus, go to the
support page to make a secure payment through Paypal or by
sending in a check or money order.
Other Websites edited by William Minter
No Easy Victories
http://www.noeasyvictories.org
Excerpts, interviews, bibliography, discount order forms, and more for
book No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century,
1950-2000
Mystery Places
http://www.mysteryplaces.net
Site for mystery novels with a sense of place.
More about AfricaFocus editor and web developer
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About AfricaFocus Bulletin
AfricaFocus Bulletin, launched in November 2003, is an independent publication edited and produced
by William Minter.
Subscribers receive one to three bulletins a month with timely material relevant
to current African issues, with a particular focus on topics of continent-wide concern with
implications for international and U.S. policy.
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change the e-mail address at which you receive
the Bulletin, please write to africafocus@igc.org. Any additional questions or
comments should be directed to the editor at the same address.
AfricaFocus Bulletin continues Minter's previous work as editor and producer
of the Africa Policy E-Journal, which was published by Africa Action.
Minter served as editor and producer of the E-Journal from the publication's beginning
under the auspices of the Africa Policy Information Center in 1995.
An archive of the Africa Policy E-Journal is also available on this site.
Frequency and Length
AfricaFocus Bulletin averages about 2 to 3 issues a month, at irregular intervals. Each posting is from
15K to 25K in length (approximately six to ten printed pages).
Purpose and Audience
AfricaFocus Bulletin is designed to highlight particularly important policy statements
and background information on policy issues. It is not a news service, and is not intended
to substitute for news coverage on specific topics or countries.
The Bulletin does not include copyrighted material, whether news or otherwise, except by
explicit permission of the originator. All issues may be freely redistributed as long as
both AfricaFocus Bulletin and the original source are credited.
The Bulletin's objective is to provide accessible information and analysis in order to promote
international policies toward Africa that advance economic, political and social justice and the
full spectrum of human rights. The Bulletin is based in Washington, and there is a particular
emphasis on material relevant to U.S. policy.
The Bulletin rarely publishes original articles, except those co-authored by the editor,
but only material that has previously been
published, in electronic or print format, and that is available for reposting. Our goal is to select
material which is generally understandable to readers with limited background knowledge but
still useful as updates to those with more extensive background.
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Guidelines for Submission
Freelance writers should note that while we welcome receiving original articles as background
information, we do not have the necessary staff to consider and publish such articles. If your
article has already been published elsewhere on the web, and is freely available for reposting
without copyright restrictions, please let us know, and we will consider it for reference or
inclusion in a possible future issue.
The Bulletin welcomes receiving material suitable for reposting, by plain-text e-mail or
by reference to a web link. PLEASE DO NOT SEND DOCUMENTS AS ATTACHMENTS,
since this greatly increases the chances they will not be read promptly.
A document for inclusion in the Bulletin should be one that:
(1) has already been published or distributed in print or electronically;
(2) is in the public domain, or authorized for redistribution by the author/originating organization
(copyrighted news articles, for example, do not fit the guidelines);
(3) is from a reputable source, for which contact information is available;
(4) is relatively short (a text file less than 20K, or less than 2,500 words) and readable;
(5) is timely (normally not older than 3 months);
(6) is preferably of continent-wide or regional interest (country-specific documents are most likely
to be included when they clearly relate to such a broader topical theme).
Policies
Privacy Policy
May 27, 2018: In compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),
An expanded version of AfricaFocus privacy policy is now available. The previous poicy
(see below) has not changed, but a more detailed explanation is provided for readers and
subscribers.
AfricaFocus is committed to respecting and protecting the privacy of site visitors
and subscribers. Any personal information received is used to improve our services
and to supply you with news, analysis, and advocacy information that is useful to
you. Neither your e-mail address nor other information you supply is shared with third parties
except when explicitly authorized by you.
Data collected automatically through web logging, cookies used for customizing
your use of the site, or other similar software does not include data identifying individuals.
This information, as well as information you may provide through voluntary surveys, is
analyzed to improve our services. It is also used to produce statistical reports on site use,
which do not identify individuals.
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site.
Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads based on their visits to this
and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by
visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Terms of Use
All content material from AfricaFocus Bulletin may be freely redistributed,
provided acknowledgement is included both to AfricaFocus Bulletin and to the
original source. This is comparable to
Creative Commons License CC BY 4.0.
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