Call for Papers

The International Journal of African Studies (IJAFRS) is an international peer-review open access journal published in English by SvedbergOpen.  It is devoted to publishing outstanding academic research papers and articles in the fields of African Studies. It also creates an open forum for exchanges between intellectuals of African descent living in Africa and the diaspora. The journal is available at the following link:

https://www.svedbergopen.com/journals/International-Journal-of-African-Studies/About-the-Journal/

Special Issue Topic overview

 Globalization has emerged as a worldwide phenomenon characterized by the rise of neoliberal orthodoxy with its emphasis on market rules and their infallibility. It connotes the internationalization of production, capital, and marketing in which the world is integrated into a global factory, global money market, and global shopping center.  Therefore, "economy" becomes the fundamental aspect of many countries.  In order to boost outcomes, there is competition in terms of labor demand with the fluidity of free trade in goods and services, free circulation capital, and freedom of investments.  While the globalization debate centers more on the implication of the contraction of the state for macroeconomics, for development of a new world system as well as for control of the unfettered civil society, the whole vital question of the perception of women in this new world of neoliberal capitalism and the fight for the liberation of women to break the rule of this system of dominance that uses them just as commodities for purposes of capital accumulation remains largely unbroached.  In this special topic, I will refer to those brave and valiant female characters called “Women of Nder” in Senegal (West Africa) who have marked the history of Senegal with their implication in the fight against the western patriarchal culture and capitalist system of dominance.  I will also address their relevancies with the radical feminists’ articulations against this new tendency of globalization as an economic apparatus based on market rationality and capital accumulation that tends to devastate women. 

As a pan African scholar, this special topic’s interests lie in its Pan African implications because many of Senegal’s problems are shared by other African countries.  Africans, African Americans, and Afro South Americans share the racial component of the developing world issues.

In this context, the International Journal of African Studies is pleased to welcome all scholarly works related or connected to this issue, wherever you are in the broad pan African world.

Thus, this study will hopefully help to raise a forum for exchange of ideas among intellectuals of African descent about leadership and management in the Pan-African world.

We will consider research articles of 5,000-7,000 words and opinion pieces of 3,000-4,000 words regarding all topics connected to this special issue, but other outstanding issues that deal with: Gender and women’s rights; Gender inequality; Labor force participation and Economic development; Immigration; Education and schooling; International trade; Government policy; Poverty and income inequality.