About the Journal

Aims and Scope

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 critical subjects related to gender, politics and economies of life and living across the African continent and the diasporas.

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

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

Sauti also gives platform to scholarship about production, distribution and valuation of social reproductive and care work including ways of making a life outside the neoliberal capitalist modes of production and reproduction. In addition, the scope of the journal covers themes that emphasize the centrality of life, resistance to precarity and living in economic analysis.

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

Sauti: Pan-African Journal of Gender, Politics and Economies of Living

 

Submissions

The journal publishes once a year in December, and a special edition in between will be considered from time to time. Issues are available on an open access basis. Journal of pan-African Feminist Political Economies of Living invites manuscripts all throughout the year, submitted through a website.

Submissions can be poetry, research articles or review articles or policy recommendations. All submissions must adhere to relevant word limit criteria. Policy briefs must not be longer than 2000 words, Articles and reviews must be 6000 words, and poetry can be up to 1000 words. The submissions must be prepared according to the Author guidelines.

Author Fees

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

Open Access

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

Archiving and Indexing

The articles published 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 subjected to a double-blind peer review process.  The journal welcomes all those who are interested in being peer reviewers. Potential reviewers must send a note to the editor-in-chief.

Authorship

Authors are those who have a substantive contribution to the article and should be listed as such. The order of authors should be based on the relative scientific contributions of the individuals involved, regardless of their status. A student must be listed as principal author in multiple-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 in. a statement any conflict of interest known.

Publishing ethics

The journal undertakes to maintain the highest regard to academic integrity of 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.