- Focus and Scope
- Section Policies
- Peer Review Process
- Publication Frequency
- Open Access Policy
- For Correspondence:
Focus and Scope
Zamani is an international biannual journal that welcomes submissions for publication consideration from all over the world. It welcomes submissions that specifically engages with African history or issues that shows relationship between Africa and other parts of the world. The submissions can be on methodological or on conventional thematic histories like political, economic, environmental, demographic, social, cultural, medical, material culture, religion, science and technology histories covering any geographical area of the African continent. The journal promotes African perspectives and thinking on African history, in both writing and research. Thus, the journal is pan-African thematically and geographically. The journal has an international and diverse editorial team of established and proven historians of Africa from Africa itself, Europe and North America.
Section Policies
Articles
Open Submissions | Indexed | Peer Reviewed |
Peer Review Process
Upon receipt of a contribution, the editors will assess its scholarly quality and relevance to the journal. If the submission is found to be potentially publishable, it is subjected to a double-blind peer review process involving a minimum of two independent reviewers. Based on the reviewers’ reports, the article is either accepted for publication, or sent back to the author with recommendations for improvements, or rejected effectively. Editors will normally inform contributors on the status of their articles within three months since the date of submission.
Publication Frequency
Zamani is a biannual journal that welcomes submissions for publication consideration from all over the world.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
For Correspondence:
Editor-in-Chief
Zamani: A Journal of African Historical Studies
Department of History, University of Dar es Salaam
P.O. Box 35050
Dar es Salaam 16103
Tanzania.
E-mail: zjahs@udsm.ac.tz