Sauti: Pan-African Journal of Gender, Politics and Economies of Living (SAUTI) is an open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal focused on the empirical, critical, and intersectoral study of subjects related to gender, politics, and economies of life and living across the African continent and its diasporas.

Sauti seeks to amplify African voices for justice, advancement of agency, articulation of resistance, and ways of surviving, living, and thriving conceptualized through the intersection of gender, feminisms, politics, and life-centered economies.

The journal publishes research that interrogates gendered power relations, social hierarchies, heterarchies, intersectionality, and gendered and feminist theoretical approaches in African and its diaspora contexts. It welcomes contributions that critically explore and explain the intersection of gender with local, national, regional, and international political and economic institutions and governance structures.

Sauti also provides a platform for scholarship on the production, distribution, and valuation of social reproductive and care work, including ways of making a life outside neoliberal capitalist modes of production and reproduction.

Although the journal is grounded in African realities, we encourage comparative and transnational perspectives that situate African lived experiences in global debates.

Submissions

The journal publishes once a year in December, with special issues considered from time to time. All issues are available on an open-access basis. Sauti invites manuscripts throughout the year, submitted through the journal website.

Submissions may take the form of research articles, review articles, policy briefs, or poetry. All submissions must adhere to the relevant word limits:

• Policy briefs — 2,000 words maximum
• Articles and reviews — 6,000 words
• Poetry — up to 1,000 words

Submissions must be prepared in accordance with the author guidelines.

Author Fees

The journal does not currently impose article processing charges (APCs) on contributors.

Open Access

The journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. All issues are published as fully open access.

Archiving and Indexing

Articles are archived and indexed in line with standards set by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), including being indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.

Peer Review Policy

All articles are subject to a double-blind peer review process. The journal welcomes those interested in serving as peer reviewers. Prospective reviewers should send a note to the editor-in-chief.

Authorship

Authors are those who have made a substantive contribution to the article and should be listed as such. The order of authors should reflect the relative scientific contributions of the individuals involved, regardless of their status. A student must be listed as principal author in multi-authored publications that substantially derive from the student's research work.

Funding

Authors must acknowledge their funding under a specific heading.

Conflict of Interest

Authors are required to disclose any known conflict of interest in a statement.

Publishing Ethics

The journal undertakes to maintain the highest regard for the academic integrity of the submissions it publishes. We respect the rights of our authors and act firmly on any suspicion or evidence of plagiarism or misuse of published articles.