Research in African Literatures (ISSN 0034-5210) is the leading scholarly journal in the field of African literary studies. Founded in 1970 at the University of Texas at Austin under editor Bernth Lindfors, it has been an official journal of both the African Literature Association and the African Literatures Division of the Modern Language Association. Published initially by the University of Texas Press and later by Indiana University Press in collaboration with Ohio State University, it publishes articles, reviews, and special issues on the oral and written literatures of Africa.
The OlongoAfrica Library holds 22 issues spanning from the inaugural number in 1970 through Volume 28 in 1997, covering the full arc from Lindfors's editorship through Abiola Irele's tenure in the 1990s.
