Estudios de Asia y África has been published by El Colegio de México since January 1966, when it was called Estudios Orientales. En 1975, it took its present name, but the numbering took up from the previous sequence.

It is an academic interdisciplinary journal in Spanish, that receives contributions in this language but also in English, Portuguese and French, that deals with the history, social, economic, political and cultural studies of Asia and Africa. It is published three times a year.