Abstract
There is a clear systemic motive to silence and undermine the genuine voices of young academics in comprehensive South African universities. The foregoing manifests in various ways including gate-keeping publishing techniques. Senior academics do not emphasize the significance of ‘publish or perish’ mantra as needed and on time for young emerging academics. This continued invidious practice is further perpetuated by the circulating scholarly reports and the media-alike which intentionally do not pay too much attention to this ongoing injustice. Where such is reported, it is often not given too much attention, or rather side-lined and even critiqued. This research article seeks to revisit all the various challenges facing young emerging scholars in South African universities. Due to complicated ethical reasons, the author does not dwell much on pin-pointing universities one by one. Also, this is because the problem seems to be a country-wide systemic instigation to undermine the new emerging voices of young emerging scholars who were previously marginalized and kicked out of the apartheid research system. I, therefore, adopt Afrocentricity as a theoretical lens to challenge the perpetuation of this continued intentional and discriminatory practice against publishing whilst young.
Highlights
Research is of paramount importance in the productive growth and development of any country, globally (Griliches, 1979)
The continued tendency by senior academics in gatekeeping research techniques from young scholars is the principal driver of quality research output deterioration in the continent (Olukoju, 2002)
The latter is presented as a reason for the continued perpetuation of the declining research investment in Africa, especially in African countries like Nigeria and others due to the crisis in research and academic publishing turning into circus
Summary
Research is of paramount importance in the productive growth and development of any country, globally (Griliches, 1979). The continued tendency by senior academics in gatekeeping research techniques from young scholars is the principal driver of quality research output deterioration in the continent (Olukoju, 2002) The latter is presented as a reason for the continued perpetuation of the declining research investment in Africa, especially in African countries like Nigeria and others due to the crisis in research and academic publishing turning into circus. Www.koersjournal.org.za research articles and reports, but rather publish works in exchange for publication fees (Wallace, 2019) Even if this is so, the research future of Africa and South Africa respectively dwells in the hands of their young emerging scientists, even though little is done to furnish them with support (Kumwenda, et al, 2017). This research article concerned itself with finding and assessing the most recent challenges facing young emerging scholars in their efforts towards making scholarly contributions in the development of South Africa and African continent through their scientific contributions
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