Call for papers for ‘Inkanyiso’
Call for papers for Inkanyiso
Inkanyiso, an open-access journal, seeks contributions that amplify Global South epistemologies and African knowledge systems. We invite transformative scholarship that challenges dominant narratives and advances decolonial, postcolonial, and Afrocentric perspectives.
Watch this video for a step-by-step guide on submitting to the journal—while demonstrated on a different journal, the process remains the same!
Please see the focus and scope below for more details
Inkanyiso deliberately embraces epistemologies of the Global South as part and parcel of its geo-politics of knowledge vis-à-vis the problematic epistemologies of the Global North. This posture finds concrete expression in the contributions received. The journal takes seriously the indigenous epistemologies, ontologies, as well as historical and socio-economic realities of its immediate communities. The intellectual project of the journal strives to privilege epistemologies of the Global South and indigenous African knowledge by systematically blending decolonial, postcolonial, Afrocentric and Afro-sensed grammars and vocabularies of change in ways that are non-fundamentalist, non-nativist and non-faddist. Given that African thought is inherently polyvocal, reflexive, responsive and dynamic, the central focus on African thought is informed by an ecology of pluralistic perspectives and ontologies across space and time.
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Historic data
‘Inkanyiso’ (means light) was launched at the University of Zululand, South Africa, on the 30th November 2009. The beaded threads on the old front cover of the journal in 2009 are worn by expectant mothers of Nguni origin and symbolise fertility and reproductivity, which this journal aims to emulate by multiplying its output in the near future.
Publication frequency
The journal publishes one volume each year. Articles are published online when ready for publication and then printed in an end-of-year compilation. Additional collections may be published for special events (e.g. conferences) and when special themes are addressed.
Open access
This is an open-access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution.
Open access publishing
AOSIS is an open-access publisher, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.