Foreword

Abstract

In 2015, Estudios de Asia y África entered the fiftieth year of its publication. Throughout these years, the journal has been an important source for the publication, in Spanish, of significant research in humanities and social sciences as well as political science and econom-ics concerning Asia and Africa. In compliance with international academic standards, articles submitted to the journal undergo a thorough process of peer-review. To commemorate our fiftieth anniversary, we have decided to offer important and pertinent work on an engaging theme that has relevance for all societies of Asia and Africa, in a special number. The effort is to make the journal even more attractive to a wide variety of readers.