Open Access

A Diamond Journal

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Most academic publications remain inaccessible to researchers in the Global South. This is particularly true for researches in Sub-Saharan Africa, for whom it is also quite difficult to publish in reputable international journals. The main reasons for this epistemic injustice are, among others, the subscription and publication costs, the preeminence of English to the detriment of other languages, especially African languages, the digital divide, and the lack of resources in these countries’ universities, academic libraries, and research bodies.

 

Open Access offers an opportunity to reduce these imbalances in the academic publishing market and democratize the production, dissemination, and access to knowledge. We subscribe to the open access philosophy and commitment to turn knowledge into a genuine public good by publishing and archiving the findings of researchers from the Global South and the Global North in free open access online journals and free digital archives as defined by the Berlin Agreement in 2003.

 

We believe that not only can open science promote multilingualism but also rapidly put an end to the epistemic injustice affecting research in the Global South. 

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For these reasons, Global Africa is a diamond open access publisher. All articles are available online for free upon release, in full text, at no cost to the reader and without any associated processing fees (Article Processing Charge - APC) for the authors or their institutions, in accordance with the Diamond Open Access publishing model. By removing the financial barriers for both authors and readers and offering a high-quality multilingual journal, we hope to significantly increase the share of African contributions to global research.

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