News about Scholarly Communication in Africa

The 6th edition of the Multilingualism Week Conference commences from the 28th to the 30th of September. This is a one-of-a-kind event that brings together language enthusiasts, students, and professionals to network and discuss relevant language industry subjects.It features 3 days of practical and impactful talks including one from our partner Chris Emezue (Lanfrica), workshops, and the celebration of International Translation Day. Learn more and RSVP: sites.google.com/view/multilingualismweek22

As recently announced, we are holding weekly Q&A sessions with Access 2 Perspectives, every Thursday at 3 pm UTC+2. You are most welcome to register and ask anything about Open Science and research project management. Register at bit.ly/a2p-free-weekly-QandA to receive weekly reminders for each session. Here is a summary from yesterday’s Q&A, in which we discussed Open Access literature discovery, incentives for ECRs to publish Open Access, and making an informed decision about where to …

Join us for our FREE weekly Q&A session (60 minutes) at 3 pm UTC+2 until the end of 2022

At AfricArXiv, we are proud supporters and endorsers of the ‘Publish Your Reviews’ campaign by ASAPbio.

AfricArXiv was represented at the VAD conference 2022 in Freiburg, Germany, organized by the Africa Centre for Transregional Research (ACT) conference focused on the theme of African Europe, reciprocal perspectives and it addressed processes of co-production of knowledge as well as the mutual questioning of different ways. of thinking. African Studies bring to light Africa’s languages, economy, history, demography, culture, politics, and religion. The conference brought together various players in African studies including researchers, thought leaders, …

Following up on our previous episode with Joyce Wangari Nugi, in which we talked about Holistic wellness and mental health in research careers, this episode is about Wangari’s work for the deaf community and deafness in academia. We are joined by N’kadziri Aminah Idd, who facilitates sign language interpretation throughout our conversation (see the video below). ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7093-2896  Website: wangari.africa  Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/joyce-wangari-a9105a1a8/  Feature at TCC Africa: tcc-africa.org/my-tcc-experience-joyce-wangari-ngugi/ Feature at INASP: blog.inasp.info/celebrating-the-international-day-of-women-and-girls-in-science/ N’kadziri Idd, is …