Wim van Binsbergen

AFRICAN RELIGION

Studies in anthropology and intercultural philosophy

From the 2002 volume Wim van Binsbergen has been managing editor of:

Quest: An African Journal of Philosophy, established by Pieter Boele van Hensbroek and Roni Bwalya at the University of Zambia in 1987, was directed by Pieter Boele van Hensbroek until he found Wim van Binsbergen prepared to succeed him in that responsibility, early 2003. In the meantime Quest has been adopted by the African Studies Centre Leiden, with substantial support also from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. A new Editorial Team has been formed (comprising Sanya Osha, Kirsten Seifikar and Wim van Binsbergen, with one African vacancy), and the intercontinental Advisory Editorial Team consolidated. The structure of peer review has been tightened and made more efficient. The gigantic task of preparing the journal for access online has now largely been completed. The Quest website is fully operational now, and is also beginning to develop into a tool for much more rapid and topical exchange of information and views than the printed form could ever be. However, given the desirability of enduring hard copy, and the patchy and uncertain access to the Internet in Africa, printed issues of the journal will continue to be produced along with the online version. Online access is free, while the printed issues are available detachedly as well as under subscription. Subscriptions may be initiated or renewed electronically from the Quest website; there also any irregularities in subcribers' reception of earlier issues may be reported. The two issues of volume XVI (the first volume of Quest to be published under the new structure), will be published autumn 2003. Authors of articles in the philosophical, academic and general intellectual field are requested to submit their contributions to Quest in the form stipulated in the website. Any mail for Quest: An African Journal of Philosophy may be addressed to: editor@quest-journal.net