Africa Confidential

Africa Confidential is a fortnightly magazine with a focus on the coverage of African countries. It was founded in 1960 as a print medium and is owned by the British company Asempa Limited. It is one of the oldest print media, dealing with economic and security issues in regard to the African continent.

Description

From 1960 to 1966, the magazine was published under the name of Africa in London. Since 1967 she is called Africa Confidential.

The magazine was founded in the era of rapidly advancing decolonization of Africa. The focus of the early reports were the British, French and Belgian colonial territories. In the beginning, six persons were the owners of the magazine, who wanted to have no influence on the editorial work. Between 1962 and 1995 the magazine was under the direction of Judith Morison, who had previously worked in the Foreign Ministry. In 1981, Judith Morison Director and co-owner of Miramoor Publications Board, along with James Lemkin (CBE ), Charles Henry Gordon - Lennox ( Duke of Richmond ), Lord John Vernon, Charles Janson and later Xan Smiley, a former editor.

In January 1994, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford took over the magazine Africa Confidential. From this owner bought on 17 July 2006 Asempa Limited the magazine. Asempa was founded by Patrick Smith and Bryan Pearson and means in the Ghanaian language Twi " Good words ".

In 2007, we began publishing a Partner sheet, Africa -Asia Confidential, which reports on the mutual relations between the two continents.

Profile

There was never editorials. Instead, the authors, a group diversified professionals from corporate tours, also national politicians and analysts, diplomats, intelligence officers, academics, journalists and staff of non-governmental organizations were.

The magazine runs an eponymous online portal that provides free access to short messages, selected text and a country-specific catalog.

Editors

  • Charles Janson (1960-1964)
  • Richard Kershaw (1964-1968)
  • Alan Rake (1968 )
  • Godfrey Morrison (1968-1977)
  • Xan Smiley (1977-1981)
  • Charles Meynell (1981-1986)
  • Stephen Ellis (1986-1991)
  • Patrick Smith (since 1991)

Since 1987, the position of deputy editor, exercised by Gillian Lusk.

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