The Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana has initiated a project to improve the accessibility, visibility and discoverability of Feminist Africa, a no-fee open access gender studies journal based at the institute and produced by a community of feminist scholars.
Feminist Africa provides a platform for intellectual and activist research, dialogue and strategy, targeting gender researchers, students, educators, women’s organizations and feminist activists throughout Africa and its diaspora. The journal is guided by a commitment to transforming gender hierarchies in Africa. It seeks to redress injustice and inequality in its content and design, and to make published issues available, accessible and visible.
The ‘Strengthening Sustainability of Journal Production and Access to Feminist Knowledge’ project seeks to address three challenges. These are, to improve discoverability and visibility of journals and contributors; to coordinate and streamline production processes, and to sustain the editorial pipeline by training associate editors in editorial and digital publishing skills.
The project is one of 17 that have received grant support through a three-year project to strengthen no-fee open access publishing in Africa implemented by EIFL, AJOL (African Journals Online) and WACREN (the West and Central African Research and Education Network), with funding from Wellcome.
Timeline
October 2024 - September 2025
Activities
- Formulating a production manual and streamlining editorial and production processes;
- Training associate editors and other journal issue editors in editorial and digital publishing skills.
- Sharing the lessons learned with journal managers in the University of Ghana and sister feminist journals.
