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African scholarly journals: Slow decline or quantum jump

African scholarly journals: Slow decline or quantum jump 85 LOGOS African scholarly journals: Slow decline or quantum jump Jacob Jaygbay Currently Senior Assistant Editor with the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar, Senegal, Jacob Jaygbay earlier worked as Research Assistant before joining the Publications Department in 1989. He holds a MPhil Degree in Publishing Studies from the Centre for Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He can be reached at jjaygbay@syfed.refer.sn. African scientific knowledge production is still tethered to, and dependent on, Europe and North America. But there is a process of scholarly knowl- edge production partly exemplified in over 400 scholarly journals published in forty-eight sub- Saharan African countries. These journals reflect knowledge dissemination not only within the con- text of south/north, but between, and within, African countries. In Africa, most research institutes are extensions of the universities or their coordinating bodies. A study of African scholarly journals must therefore be prefaced by a brief look at the creation and expansion of institutes of higher learning in Africa. The ninety-three universities in Africa were created after different Western models of education and then mutated by the education policies of African governments, who responded in various ways http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Logos Brill

African scholarly journals: Slow decline or quantum jump

Jaygbay, Jacob
Logos , Volume 8 (2): 85 – Jan 1, 1997
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© 1997 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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85 LOGOS African scholarly journals: Slow decline or quantum jump Jacob Jaygbay Currently Senior Assistant Editor with the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar, Senegal, Jacob Jaygbay earlier worked as Research Assistant before joining the Publications Department in 1989. He holds a MPhil Degree in Publishing Studies from the Centre for Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He can be reached at jjaygbay@syfed.refer.sn. African scientific knowledge production is still tethered to, and dependent on, Europe and North America. But there is a process of scholarly knowl- edge production partly exemplified in over 400 scholarly journals published in forty-eight sub- Saharan African countries. These journals reflect knowledge dissemination not only within the con- text of south/north, but between, and within, African countries. In Africa, most research institutes are extensions of the universities or their coordinating bodies. A study of African scholarly journals must therefore be prefaced by a brief look at the creation and expansion of institutes of higher learning in Africa. The ninety-three universities in Africa were created after different Western models of education and then mutated by the education policies of African governments, who responded in various ways

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