Editorial Statement / Note des EditeursAuthor(s): Myron J. Echenberg and Alf SchwarzSource: Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 4,No. 3 (Autumn, 1970), pp. 283-284Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. on behalf of the Canadian Association of African StudiesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/484062 .

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Editorial Statement

This number marks a change of editorship for the Canadian Journal of African Studies. After editing the Journal since he was instrumental in its foundation in 1967, Donald Savage is stepping down. In his place the executive of the Canadian Association of African Studies (C.A.A.S.) has selected two co-editors who bring both a linguistic and disciplinary balance the Journal seeks to maintain. The editors are bilingual and are familiar with both Anglophone and Francophone nations of Africa. Alf Schwarz teaches Sociology at Universit6 Laval and has done research in the Congo Kinshasa; Myron J. Echenberg is Assistant Professor of History at McGill University and has worked in Upper Volta and Ghana.

As in the past, the Journal reflects a bilingual, international and multi- disciplinary approach towards African Studies. Based in Canada, and published by the C.A.A.S., the Journal serves Africanists in Canada and abroad as an outlet for their research and as a means of communication concerning the activities of the C.A.A.S.

While welcoming contributions from all quarters, the new editors wish particularly to invite their African colleagues to participate in the Journal. Its bilingual nature, and its growing list of readers on three continents make the C.J.A.S. an excellent forum for those who wish to have their work made acces- sible to a wide international audience.

Striking a linguistic, disciplinary and regional balance is difficult. Only with the support of their readership can the editors achieve these objectives. Suggestions, criticism, and above all scholarly manuscripts are the life blood of any journal. We await your contributions, which can be addressed to either editor.

Myron J. Echenberg Department of History McGill University Montreal, Que.

Alf Schwarz D6partement de Sociologie Universite Laval

Quebec, Qu6.

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Note des Editeurs

La Revue Canadienne d'ttudes Africaines change d'6diteur avec ce numero mais elle maintient son orientation. Les nouveaux 6diteurs d6sirent meme accentuer les orientations fondamentales que Donald Savage, leur pr6d6cesseur, a su donner avec autant de perspicacit6 et de t6nacit6 " cette revue qu'il a fond6e en 1967.

Bilingue, internationale et pluridisciplinaire, la Revue Canadienne d'Etudes Africaines cherchera, comme elle l'a fait hier, a identifier le plus possible 1'ap- port canadien aux etudes africaines tout en apportant a la communaut6 scienti- fique canadienne les r6sultats des recherches et la connaissance des collegues d'autres pays et d'autres continents.

Ouverte sans aucune distinction aux contributions de langue anglaise et franqaise, la revue d6sire poursuivre la vocation canadienne qui consiste a servir de lien et de lieu de rencontre pour les communaut6s scientifiques franco-

phone et anglophone au-dela de toute frontiere nationale et continentale.

Les nouveaux editeurs de la Revue Canadienne d'ttudes Africaines en- tendent dans cet esprit insister plus particulibrement sur la vocation interna- tionale de leur revue en invitant de faqon pressante leurs collegues africains a fournir une contribution originale pour une meilleure connaissance de l'Afrique.

La vocation internationale de la revue qu'appuie une politique de publica- tion r6solument bilingue devra 6galement viser au d6cloisonnement et au

rapprochement des diff6rentes sciences humaines par un programme de publi- cation v6ritablement multidisciplinaire.

Tous ces objectifs resteraient lettre morte sans la collaboration active de nombreux specialistes. Les 6diteurs en sont parfaitement conscients. Aussi

esp6rent-ils ardemment que leurs objectifs rejoignent les int6rets des milieux africanistes des diff6rentes disciplines au Canada et '

l'6tranger. Leurs contri- butions, leurs suggestions et leurs critiques seules garantiront la vie et le dyna- misme de la revue.

Myron J. Echenberg Department of History McGill University Montreal, Qu6.

Alf Schwarz Departement de Sociologie Universite Laval

Quebec, Qu6.

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