Транзишн: Международный журнал о расе и культуре

International magazine about race and culture

Transition Magazine was established in 1961 by Rajat Neogy as Transition Magazine: An International Review. It was published from 1961 to 1976 in various countries on the African continent, and since 1991 in the United States. In recent years it has been published between twice and four times per year by Indiana University Press, since 2013 on behalf of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

Upon his 1961 return to Kampala, Uganda, from studies in London, 22 year old Rajat Neogy established Transition Magazine: An International Review. The magazine was partially funded by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, an anti communist advocacy group whose ties to the Central Intelligence Agency were then unknown. Transition served as a major literary platform of East African writers and intellectuals during the Cold War. In 1962, Christopher Okigbo was appointed as editor of a West African edition. In 1968, the Ugandan government jailed Neogy for sedition; the magazine had criticized President Milton Obote's proposed constitutional reforms. Henry Louis Gates, Jr, previously a frequent contributor to Transition when published in Ghana, revived the magazine in 1991. Under his leadership, Transition evolved into "an international magazine about race and culture, with an emphasis on the African diaspora". as of 2020 the editor is Alejandro de la Fuente. Soyinka is chair of the editorial board, and Gates and Kwame Anthony Appiah are named as the publishers. All back issues are available via JSTOR, with issue descriptions available from Issue 102 (2010) on the Hutchins website.