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Pan-African Women’s Day & Other News
In this African Journals Initiative newsletter, we would like to bring your attention to the recently celebrated Pan-African Women’s Day. We highlight an article by Derosha Moodley and Ansurie Pillay in the latest issue of Bakwethu.
Top-Read 2025 Articles & State Crime Journal
New from State Crime Journal + Most-Read 2025 Articles. The most-read Pluto Journals articles published in 2025 reflect readers’ interest in major political, economic and social issues. All publications are Diamond Open Access.
Mandela Day & Botswana Notes and Records
African scholarship plays an important role in representing the continent’s lived realities and reflecting them within academic discourse. We are pleased to bring you three journal offerings journeying from Nigeria, Tanzania, to Botswana.
Critical Diversity, Change in Cuba & indenture afterlives
See latest issues of International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies, International Journal of Cuban Studies & Journal of Indentureship and Its legacies. Read new AJI issues: Ibadan Journal of Sociology, Zamani and Botswana Notes and Records.
Africa Day & AJI Call for New Journals
Africa Day & AJI Call for New Journals. On May 25 2026, Africa Day was celebrated globally.. We are looking to partner with more journals published from the African continent for 2027. Applications are open here. The deadline is 30 September 2026.
Iran, Gaza and the Shifting Global Order
We’re sharing the latest articles from Journal of Global Faultlines, more perspectives on Gaza and the Zionist entity from Arab Studies Quarterly, and a special issue of State Crime Journal featuring Global South perspectives.
AI, Health Justice & Global Inequality Questioned
Within our May news, we’re pleased to share another eclectic collection of articles from researchers from across the world. Articles, from the latest Pluto Journals publications, tackle AI, Health Justice and the Question of Global Inequality.
Bakwethu and African Journal of Bioethics Live
As the world celebrated Shakespeare Day, on 23rd April, the African Journals Initiative (AJI) onboarded an international, biannual, peer-reviewed, open-access journal: Bakwethu: A Journal of Shakespeare from South Africa.
Palestine, Islamophobia and the Politics of Belonging
Arab and Islamic studies journals, with articles exploring the impact of Islamophobia on the lives of Muslims across the world, from Sweden and the UK to Palestine are the focus from news of latest publications.
The latest Ibadan Journal of Sociology & Other News
Ibadan Journal of Sociology, which onboarded onto the African Journals Initiative (AJI) in 2025, has now published. Editor, Ọláyínká Àkànle. Ph.D., reflected on the AJI’s impact on their journal–affirming its existence.
2025 Annual Impact Report & Top10 Articles
We are pleased to share that our usage remains truly international and that in 2025, our global usage increased by 18% reaching 2,741,770. Our reporting also highlights a compelling list of the top 10 articles covering some current critical subjects.
Capitalist Economies Slower Growth + Labour Insights.
We are pleased to share a truly international selection of articles from latest publications on political economy, indentured labour, platform labour and domestic work. Our journals are Diamond Open Access, and free to read on ScienceOpen with the archive on JSTOR.
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