Afrostructuring Scientific Publishing
For the past few days, I had been basking in jubilation that nothing seemed able to disturb. Global Africa, the journal we had created less than three years earlier, had just been …
For the past few days, I had been basking in jubilation that nothing seemed able to disturb. Global Africa, the journal we had created less than three years earlier, had just been …
In recent years, Africa’s space sector has experienced a period of disruptive expansion, gradually establishing itself as a strategic player in the world stage. As of mid-202…
Introduction More than 75 years since independence, African academic journal publishing is at an uncertain crossroads. This was not how Nkrumah envisaged Africa’s scientific modern…
A scientometric analysis of Africa’s scientific publication over the past two decades shows first that eleven nations representing half of Africa’s population provided 88% of its i…
Why does being indexed in Web of Science and Scopus matter so much for African journals? And why is getting indexed so difficult? In this paper we revisit the history of the first …
This article explores the current state of scholarly publishing in Morocco, shedding light on the historical and systemic issues affecting the field. Over the past twenty years, Mo…
In 2021, The African Review (TARE) attained its 50 years of existence. Founded by the Department of Political Science of the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), it primarily focuse…
African Studies Quarterly, the first open access journal which deals with issues related to Africa, has maintained a unique publishing model for over 25 years. During this period, …
Research can only be truly inclusive and global if voices from all locations, genders, ethnicities, backgrounds, and areas of experience are heard and represented across all stages…
Context GAINDESAT-1A, the first Senegalese-built nanosatellite, was launched on August 16, 2024, at 18:56 GMT. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket carried GAINDESAT-1A during its Transp…
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