Quality, access, and voice in African studies publishing: smoothing the path to bigger changes

Abstract: It was an honour to serve as Africa Spectrum's editor-in-chief. And it was a heck of a lot of work. Five hundred submissions a year, weekly editorial calls, conferences, production, administration, and budgeting. One could easily drown in these everyday tasks, and thereby lose sight of the bigger changes that matter.
As academics, we should constantly strive to deepen and broaden the knowledge base we create. As an academic journal, we should ask ourselves whose knowledge is published and who can read it. Finally, knowledge is not self-sustaining; it lives and breathes with those who share and receive it, and those who use it to induce change. In African Studies – understood as “transdisciplinary knowledge production concerning Africa or Africans” (Kessi et al., 2020: 272) – publishing must go beyond the tasks to be performed on a daily basis and reflect also on quality, access, and voice

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Africa spectrum. - 59, 1 (2024) , 3-9, ISSN: 1868-6869

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Politik

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Freiburg
• (who): Universität
• (when): 2024
• Creator: Glawion, Tim

Further information

• DOI: 10.1177/00020397241244409
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-2466131
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 14.08.2025, 11:00 AM CEST