[1] It was founded with the help of Lionel Cliffe and is published quarterly by Taylor & Francis since 1974.

As of January 2024 the journal will leave Taylor & Francis and become open access.

[2] It focuses in particular on the political economy of inequality, exploitation, and oppression, whether driven by global forces or local ones (such as class, race, community and gender), and to materialist interpretations of change in Africa.

[4] It is indexed in a number of databases, including Scopus (Elsevier), Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate), IBZ Online (De Gruyter), Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest), Social Sciences Abstracts (EBSCO), ABI/INFORM (ProQuest), Business Source Ultimate (EBSCO), CAB Abstracts (CABI), Humanities Abstracts (EBSCO), and Index Islamicus (Brill).

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