Volume 19 (1), July-December 2019, ISSN 1987-071X
The African Review of Social Sciences and Public Health (RASP) is a pan-African scientific journal. It aims to promote research, disseminate findings, and support the training of early-career lecturers, researchers, and practitioners. Its editorial line is centered on social justice and especially on health in its social, collective, cultural, and economic dimensions, as well as on its clinical implications. In short, it addresses a broad range of issues across the social sciences and humanities.
The journal relies on the views of its review committee, made up of lecturers, researchers, and practitioners from both Africa and Europe.
Within a few months, more precisely in January 2020, RASP would mark its tenth anniversary. With more than 230 articles published in that period, everyone involved has contributed to the promotion of research, the circulation of findings, the development of younger scholars, and the struggle against social injustice.
Over the years, RASP not only appeared regularly, it also developed both quantitatively and qualitatively. To make authors and the journal more visible, since February 2019 it has also published an electronic version of the journal in open-access format.
Soon, RASP would celebrate ten “small rainy seasons.” That anniversary coincided with the sixtieth anniversary of the independence of most African states, which gave the moment added significance. For that reason, the editorial team welcomed contributions focused on the history, challenges, and future of the African continent, its diaspora, and the wider Third World.
This nineteenth issue is made up of five articles, four of them based on case studies carried out by Malian lecturers, researchers, and practitioners. The first article, “Algeria-West Africa: a common destiny rooted in a shared millennial history,” is by Professor Pierre Philippe Rey and explores the long historical relationship between North Africa and West Africa, with particular attention to Algeria’s sociopolitical history and renewable-energy potential.
Three of the five articles are respectively devoted to:
- the distribution of social workers' activities across different services in Mali;
- the role of decentralization in mobilizing local actors for neighborhood development in urban areas;
- the socioeconomic role of shea in the cercle of Kangaba, in the Koulikoro region.
The final article in the issue examines the nutritional status of children aged 0 to 5 in the rural commune of Pelengana, in the Segou region of Mali.
The editorial team also used this issue to announce the death of Mr. Diadie Soumare, who passed away in Paris on Sunday 23 June 2019. His death represented a major loss for many communities in France, Mali, and beyond who had worked with him for human and social progress.
The team expressed the hope that future issues of the journal would publish tributes and testimonies from people across Africa, Europe, and the diaspora who had known him.
May his soul rest in peace. Amen.
Dear readers, enjoy the issue.
The editorial team
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