The first issue of African Population Studies appeared ten years ago with the aim of disseminating work done on African population by the international community of population researchers. As the official scientific publication of the Union for African Population Studies, African Population Studies has made good contributions to the dissemination of research on African population. In fact, the basic mission of the journal to is disseminate dependable and timely information emanating from original scholarly research on African population. African Population Studies has maintained a bilingual identity, thereby reaching a wider audience of professionals and policy makers. The success of bilingual publishing has gone beyond the published pages to break communication and other artificial barriers between Anglophone and Francophone researchers.