Bakwethu and African Journal of Bioethics Journal Live
On 23rd April 2026, the world celebrated Shakespeare Day, and we at the African Journals Initiative (AJI) onboarded Bakwethu: A Journal of Shakespeare from South Africa. An international, biannual, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, Bakwethu explores Shakespeare from global perspectives, with particular attention to African and Global South contexts.
As noted by Christopher Thurman & Marguerite de Waal: “The launch of Bakwethu: A journal of Shakespeare studies is an exciting development in the field of Global Shakespeares. As the journal of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa, it continues the legacy of its predecessor Shakespeare in Southern Africa but with a broader scope. Working from a globally southern and African perspective, Bakwethu will provide a dynamic and inclusive platform for scholarship exploring the multifaceted intersections between Shakespeare and diverse cultures, histories and artistic expressions, as well as work that disrupts the boundaries suggested by national or geographic categories.”
African Journal of Bioethics is live on ScienceOpen.
We are pleased to announce that the African Journal of Bioethics has been onboarded into the AJI 2026 collection and is now live on ScienceOpen.
African Journal of Bioethics, Volume 3, Issue 1, features nine articles that, according to Editor-in-Chief Mercy Shitindo, are united by three threads: vulnerability, the insistence that ethical reasoning must be responsive to the social and cultural contexts in which it operates and the adaptation and development of bioethical frameworks, and the epistemic resources available for that work.
Explore the full issue for free on ScienceOpen. 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.
We are currently considering titles for 2027 and have an exciting selection of journals from across Africa. We look forward to sharing them with you.
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