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Africa Today
Edited by Nana Amoah-Ramey, Sergio Fernandez, Maria Grosz-Ngaté, Lauren M. MacLean, Allison Martino, Beth Lewis Samuelson, and Esi Thompson
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- Keywords: African Studies, Cultures, Diasporas, History, Politics, Anthropology, Art History, Geography, Literature, Religion, Sociology, Postcolonial Approaches
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Africa Today publishes peer-reviewed, scholarly articles and book reviews in a broad range of academic disciplines on topics related to contemporary Africa. We seek to be a venue for interdisciplinary approaches, diverse perspectives, and original research in the humanities and social sciences. This includes work on social, cultural, political, historical, and economic subjects. Past special issues have been on topics such as the future of African artistic practices, the socio-cultural life of bus stations in Africa, and family-based health care in Ghana. Africa Today has been on the forefront of African Studies research since 1954. Please review our submission guidelines and then contact the Managing Editor or any of the editors with any questions you might have about publishing in Africa Today.
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Editors
- Nana Amoah-Ramey, African Studies Program and Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Indiana University, United States
- Sergio Fernandez, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, United States
- Maria Grosz-Ngaté, African Studies Program, Indiana University, United States
- Lauren MacLean, Department of Political Science, Indiana University, United States
- Allison Martino, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, United States
- Beth Lewis Samuelson, School of Education, Indiana University, United States
- Esi Thompson, The Media School, Indiana University, United States
Book Review Editor
- C. Kevin Taber, College of St. Scholastica, United States
Managing Editor
- Hilary Warner-Evans, Indiana University, United States
Editorial Assistant
- Asher Lubotzky, Indiana University, United States
Advisory Board
- Olufemi Babarinde, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University, United States
- Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu, School of Public Management and Administration, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Mamadou Diouf, Insitute for African Studies, Columbia University, United States
- Joanna Grabski, School of Art, Arizona State University, United States
- Sean Hanretta, Department of History, Northwestern University, United States
- Jennifer Hart, Department of History, Wayne State University, United States
- Daniel Hoffman, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, United States
- Alaine Hutson, Department of Humanities and Fine Arts, Huston-Tillotson University, United States
- Dele Jegede, Department of Art, Miami University, United States
- Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Department of Anthropology, University College London, United Kingdom
- Jean-Michel Mabeko-Tali, Department of History, Howard University, United States
- Anne-Maria Makhulu, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, United States
- Zacharia Mampilly, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs and Department of Political Science, CUNY Baruch, United States
- Bárbaro Martínez Ruiz, Department of Art History, Indiana University, United States
- Michelle Moyd, Department of History, Michigan State University, United States
- Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Department of Anthropology, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Ato Kwamena Onoma, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada
- Donna Patterson, Department of History, Political Science, and Philosophy, Delaware State University, United States
- Daniel B. Reed, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University, United States
Authors may view the journal's style guide and submit manuscripts for consideration via the journal's online submissions portal: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/aft. Inquiries concerning manuscript submission should be directed to the editorial staff at [email protected].
Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
Africa Today (AT) is dedicated to following best practices on ethical matters, errors, and retractions. The prevention of publication malpractice is one of the important responsibilities of the editorial board. Any kind of unethical behavior is not acceptable, and AT does not tolerate plagiarism in any form. Authors submitting articles to AT affirm that manuscript contents are original.
The following duties outlined for editors, authors, and reviewers are based on the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) guidelines, which are in turn based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct for Journal Editors. Editors, authors, and reviewers will also adhere to the AACE and Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) submission guideline policies and the COPE International Standards for Authors.
Duties of Editor
Publication Decisions: Based on the external reviews, the editor can accept, reject, or request modifications to the manuscript.
Review of Manuscripts: Each editor must evaluate each manuscript for originality. Following desk review, the manuscript will be sent out for blind peer review, which the editor will use to determine whether to accept, reject, or request revisions for the manuscript.
Fair Review: The editors must ensure that each manuscript received by AT is reviewed for its intellectual content without regard to sex, gender, race, religion, citizenship, etc. of the authors.
Confidentiality: The editors must ensure that information regarding manuscripts submitted by the authors is kept confidential. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: The editors of AT will not use unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript for their own research without written consent of the author.
Duties of Authors
Reporting Standards: Authors should present an accurate account of their original research as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Manuscripts will follow the submission guidelines of the journal.
Originality: Authors must ensure that they have written entirely original work.
Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publications: Authors should not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently. It is also expected that the author will not publish redundant manuscripts or manuscripts describing the same research in more than one journal.
Acknowledgement of Sources: Authors should acknowledge all sources of data used in the research and cite publications that have been influential in the research work.
Authorship of the Paper: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to conception, design, execution or interpretation of the reported study. Others who have made significant contribution must be listed as co-authors. Authors also ensure that all the authors have seen and agreed to the submitted version of the manuscript and their inclusion of names as co-authors.
Data Access and Retention: Authors should provide raw data related to their manuscript for editorial review and must retain such data. Fundamental Errors in Published Works: If at any point of time, the author(s) discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in submitted manuscript, then the error or inaccuracy must be reported to the editor.
Duties of Reviewers
Confidentiality: Information regarding manuscripts submitted by authors should be kept confidential and be treated as privileged information.
Acknowledgement of Sources: Manuscript reviewers must ensure that authors have acknowledged all sources of data used in the research. Any kind of similarity or overlap between the manuscripts under consideration or with any other published paper of which reviewer has personal knowledge must be immediately brought to the editor's notice.
Standards of Objectivity: Review of submitted manuscripts must be done objectively and the reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
Promptness: In the event that a reviewer feels it is not possible for him/her to complete review of manuscript within stipulated time then this information must be communicated to the editor, so that the manuscript could be sent to another reviewer.
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