African Studies Abstracts Online (ASAO) was a quarterly

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covering

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articles and edited works on

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...

in the field of the

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and the

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. It was published by the

Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden The African Studies Centre ( Dutch: ''Afrika-Studiecentrum'') is a scientific institute in the Netherlands that undertakes social-science research on Africa with the aim of promoting a better understanding of historical, current and future social ...

. The journal was established in 1968 as ''Documentatieblad'' and renamed ''African Studies Abstracts'' in 1994, before obtaining its current name in 2002 when print was abandoned and with volume numbering re-starting at 1. ASAO no. 60 (2017) was the last issue.

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