AI, Digital Cultures And Social Change in the Latest Issue of the Ibadan Journal Of Sociology
We are excited to announce that Volume 17, Issue 3 of the Ibadan Journal of Sociology is now live.
This issue features African scholarship on artificial intelligence, exploring its adoption in three public organisations, regulatory frameworks for AI adoption in public universities in South-West Nigeria, and the relationship between AI-driven flexible work arrangements and employee retention in Nigeria’s brewery sector.
It also examines how digitally mediated indigenous performances contribute to heritage preservation, trauma healing and ecological resilience in selected post-conflict communities in Cameroon and Nigeria.
The contributions in Volume 17, Issue 3 include:
Research articles
A Comparative Analysis of AI Adoption from a Socio-Technical Lens across Three Public Organisations in Nigeria
Book review
Beyond Outrage: Boko Haram, Forced Displacement, Agency and Sustainable Solutions
The Cost of Knowledge
In case you missed it, in October, we joined the world to celebrate International Open Access Week, highlighting the work of two journals: African Journal of Bioethics and Bakwethu: A Journal of Shakespeare Studies. Find out how the respective editors-in-chief, Mercy Shitindo and Marguerite de Waal, respectively responded to this year’s theme “The Cost of Knowledge” in their reflections here and here.
The initial six 2025 AJI journals and five new 2026 AJI titles are Diamond Open Access and all articles are free to read. You will be able to see the issues as they are published on ScienceOpen and JSTOR
Applications for the 2027 cohort are now closed. We have an exciting selection of journals from across Africa under consideration and we look forward to sharing them with you.
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