Call for Papers:
Journal of Higher Education in Africa
Special Issue: ‘Scholars on the Move: Reclaiming the African Diaspora to support African Higher Education’. (March, 2016)
Guest Editors: Patrício V. LANGA, University of the Western Cape, South Africa and Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique
Ibrahim O. OANDA, Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa, CODESRIA
Samuel N. FONGWA, University of the Free State, South Africa
Special Issue Editor: Patrício V. Langa
Two distinguished keynote addresses: Prof. Tade Akin Aina, Executive Director, PASGR
Prof. Emmanuel Akyeampong, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Under its newly launched African Diaspora to Support African Universities program, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is pleased to invite interested African scholars in the diaspora and African-based scholars to submit empirical and conceptual papers for a Special Issue on partnerships and collaborations between scholars in the diaspora and African-based scholars and institutions. The issue seeks to highlight topics related to the theory, practice and experiences of African scholars in the diaspora and African-based institutions.
The call for papers is a follow-up from a Research Partnership Network Methodological Workshop in Nairobi, 14th -16th October 2015, which was organised under CODESRIA’s diaspora support initiative. The workshop in Nairobi brought together African scholars in the diaspora and those based on the continent. While all the participants acknowledged that the workshop was an enriching experience, CODESRIA decided to extend the discussion through a special issue in the African Journal of Higher Education in Africa.
The aim of the special issue is to undertake a critical, reflective appraisal of the multidimensional forms of engagement, power dynamics, and the challenges of collaborations between African scholars in the diaspora and African-based scholars and institutions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- The interchange – initiatives, forms of collaboration, degree of co-operation, tensions, complementariness - between African scholars in the diaspora and African universities or African-based scholars;
- The experiences of academic mobility programs involving those in the African diaspora and African-based scholars;
- The benefits and drawbacks of such collaborations and partnerships;
- The patterns and dimensions of ‘brain drain’, ‘brain gain’ and ‘brain circulation’ for the development of African higher education and the continent;
- The issues of supervision and co-supervision of students in a context of academic exchange between African scholars in the diaspora and African universities or African-based scholars;
- Use of information technology to enhance the collaboration between African scholars in the diaspora and African universities;
- Experiences of joint publications or other forms of research dissemination and collaborative initiatives, etc.
Interested authors are to submit a 6000 to 7000 word text, including references, by 31 January 2016 for consideration. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by February 2016 and will be given additional time to revise their contributions in the light of editorial comments. All ‘accepted’ papers will then be sent for external peer review, according to JHEA’s standard operating procedures and regulations.
The special issue is to be published during the first semester of 2016. Manuscripts should be submitted as word documents to: Email: patricio.langa@gmail.com sam4ngwa50@gmail.com
