PUBLICATIONS

ALUSA aims to establish and host academic journals, as well as to publish academic and popular books that aligns with its core commitments to grow new knowledge of, for and by Africa. 

At its core ALUSA engages with publication projects and programmes that distribute and popularise scientific findings for real and wide impact. This means publications not only for an academic or scientifict readership, but equally important, for an everday and broader public readership. 

Our purpose in doing so is for new knowledge to be shared with the people of Africa, and thereby to strengthen their own voices and daily work to lead change.       

The first initiative to host an academic journal will be launched by March of 2025, which is the African Journal of Non-Profit Higher Education. This first journal hosted by ALUSA is provisionally scheduled to publish its next issue by June 2025. 

The first initiative to publish research outputs in book form aims to build a collection of current and new books authored by associates and gaduates. The initiative will resource, at least in part, the publication as new titles of research findings of doctoral graduates and from the continuing research programmes of ALUSA academics and associates. The collections will also bring together the current publications of ALUSA associates to show the existing reach and impact of their work.

The first phase of the initiative for special book collections is scheduled to be launched in the second semester of 2025.

More so than a special project, but rather a standing way of engagement in research, a third emphasis in our commitment to distribute useful knowledge is to guide our community of students, academics and associates to comment on societal questions in popular media, such as by writing columns in newspapers or magazines, address professional and popular conferences, and join debates aired on broadcast media. This work we however consider a standing activity with which our teams of students, academics and professional staff will engage.

For ALUSA, knowledge shared is knowledge achieved.