The journal is published by Cambridge University Press and as of 2018 its editors will be Ian Taylor [St. Andrews University] and Ebenezer Obadare [University of Kansas]. It was edited by Leonardo A. Villalón [University of Florida] and Paul Nugent [University of Edinburgh] from 2012-2017, and by Christopher Clapham from the University of Cambridge from 1997 to 2012. David Kimble from the National University of Lesotho served as its founding editor from 1963 to 1997.