Please complete this form and email to the Series Editors:

Professor Stephanie Newell Dr Ranka Primorac

English DepartmentUniversity of Southampton

P.O. Box 208302Department of English

Yale UniversityFaculty of Humanities

New Haven, CT Avenue Campus, Highfield

06520-8302, USA Southampton
SO17 1BJ

Publication Proposal for African Articulations Series

This form provides us with the information necessary to make an initial appraisal of your publication project. If we decide that it is a possibility for the list, we will contact you to request further material for peer review. If the complete manuscript is not available, at least two sample chapters and a detailed breakdown of the rest of the book will be required.

As a matter of policy, we do not consider proposals under review by other publishers.

Title of your book /working title:

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Your name(as it is to appear on the book):

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Full contact details (correspondence address, phone, fax and email):

Your background in brief (education, academic qualifications, other books you have written, or attach a brief CV):

Description of your book(300 words to 2,000 words maximum):

What do you think makes it a good candidate for the African Articulations series?

If a contents page is available, please attach a copy.

Material to be supplied

  1. Text

Note that electronic disk and hard copy should always be provided. Material unavailable in electronic format can be accepted in exceptional circumstances only.

Are disks: IBM PC / MAC (delete as appropriate)

Which word processing program do you use?

MS Word / Other ______

B. Illustrations, tables, graphs, maps, musical examples

Please give brief details, including number of each and software used in their formatting. (Illustrations etc. should be included only if vital to your argument, not for decorative purposes.)

Colour illustrations ______

Black and white illustrations ______

Tables (programme used) ______

Graphs (programme used) ______

Line drawings, maps, family trees ______

Online material: does your book project entail making any primary/visual/filmic material available online? Please describe any primary source materials to be made available to readers online via a link to the book’s entry on the website

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If the book is accepted for publication then it is the author’s responsibility to clear copyright and show evidence of copyright clearance for any such primary material that they wish to have linked to the text in this way and the author would need to provide a suitable PDF of such material (watermarked as copyrighted material). Please discuss permissions issues with the Series Editors.

C. Special characters

Are special characters (e.g. Yoruba diacritics) required? Please provide details if so.

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D. Length of text

The Series Editors are looking for books c 80-90,000 words final length

Please supply an estimated word count of the length of the text, including notes, appendices and bibliography.

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E. Market

Please give a general indication of the market as follows:

Level:research / undergraduate / background reading (academic) / general market

Will it be of interest to readers outside the main subject area?

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If an academic book, are there particular courses which might use the book as background or course book?

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Do you know of any specialist interest groups who might buy the book?

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F. Date of completion

Please give a realistic date for completion of full manuscript

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