Transition Magazine

Transition is an American magazine of African descent, whose readership consists mainly of black intellectuals. The journal is published quarterly in English, and was founded in 1961 by Rajat Neogy in Kampala, Uganda as a monthly magazine. Today transition contains contributions to African-American debates, prose and contemporary art and photography. The magazine is published in the U.S. since 1991, released today by the Indiana University Press ( IUP ) in Bloomington, Indiana.

Transition had its headquarters soon after the founding of Uganda in the Ghanaian Accra embarrassed because the Ugandan government pursued the magazine as " subversive ". Transition quickly became the leading intellectual journal in Africa, among other things published the Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere and the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, as well as the American writer James Baldwin and Paul Theroux, the poet Langston Hughes and the intellectual Henry Louis Gates, Jr. the later Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka was in the 1970 editor of transition. In 1976, the magazine was discontinued for the time being.

Since 1991 Transition appear again until 2007 at the Oxford University Press in New York, and since 2008 with the IUD in Bloomington. The issues of transition now appear quarterly and each has a thematic focus, are under the lyrics and photos of the booklet. Main topics of the past, for example, Theodor Adorno, African Art or bisexuality.

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• Official Website of Transition
• History of Transition