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Research On Sub-Saharan Africa's Unrecorded International Trade: Some Methodological and Conceptual Problems*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

Stephen Ellis  and
Janet MacGaffey
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The New Directions Papers is a new series of the Joint Committee on African Studies (JCAS) of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). The purpose of New Directions is to open or re-open a field of African studies which has been neglected or in which not enough new work has been done. Thus, it is intended as a forum for challenging rather than surveying research agendas and received wisdoms that have shaped understandings about Africa. The Committee seeks papers that are empirically-based but methodologically- or theoretically-minded. For example, a case study would be viewed as an opportunity to show how a new perspective on African realities can be achieved through an innovative approach. In general, the Committee favors papers that can help colleagues who work in Africa to renew their practice of the field. The series will appear jointly in the African Studies Review and Cahiers d'etudes africaines, published simultaneously in English and French.

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African Studies Review , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , September 1996 , pp. 19 - 41
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1996

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We are grateful to Béatrice Hibou and Bogumil Jewsiewicki, as well as to a number of anonymous reviewers, for comments on an earlier draft of this article.

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