Abstract
This paper anchors the academic journal in Africa in the wider discourse of knowledge production, dissemination and “who speaks for Africa?” The paper puts forward the idea of academic journals in Africa as transformative technologies within a much fuller spectrum of communicative practices for societal change, moving the academic journal beyond its limiting knowledge in a fixed medium for dissemination. It examines the established understanding of academic journals as content provider and argues for a reformulation as communication service provider, a much useful model in terms of foregrounding what can be termed, ‘thinking from within' as distinct from ‘thinking from without' in engaging the challenges of poverty, environment, and societal change in Africa.
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