Aim & Scope

Jalingo Journal of African Studies (JJOAS) is a Multi-Disciplinary Journalbeing managed by the Department of History of History and Diplomatic Studies in the Faculty of Arts, Taraba State University, Jalingo, Nigeria. The Editorial Board subscribes to the rules of peer review among the BOARD MEMBERS. JJOAS aims at contributing to the debate on making the study of African History, Social Science, and other relevant disciplines unique by accepting different scholastic ideas. The Editorial Team ensures critical analysis of each manuscript. The journal gives equal opportunity and space to scholars to present scholarly and insightful research.

ISBN: 2276-6812 (Print)

E-ISSN: 3027-0944 (Online)

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Mission Statement

One of the prime factors for the emergence of Africanist sources on African history in the 19th century was the daylight fallacies European sources concocted and relayed about African history. Some of their unfounded historical perspectives about Africa and her history included, first, that, Africa had no history before the advent of the Europeans on the continent. Secondly, even if Africa had some form of history, such had nothing useful to offer to humanity and hence not worthy to be a subject matter of history. Other European sources, particularly those by their explorers, anthropologists, Christian missionaries, and colonial officials, among others, painted everything of African origin completely in gross bad light as being primitive, barbaric, and of no importance to constitute a part of world history. In addition, European sources did little or nothing to touch key historical themes on African history such as the origins and migrations of people groups in Africa, state formation processes in Africa and the emergence and exploits of renowned African empires, kingdoms and state systems such as Ghana, Empire, Mali Empire, Songhai Empire, Kanem-Bornu Empire, Oyo Empire, Benin Kingdom, the Hausa States, to mention but just few.  The broad daylight fallacies concocted and transmitted in the aforementioned European sources rendered any effort to rely on European sources in the study of African history an exercise in futility.

EDITORIAL BOARD

Submission Guideline

Guide to Authors

Authors must strictly adhere to the format and style of the journal to avoid manuscript rejection. Thus, authors are encouraged to carefully read the instructions before submitting their manuscripts.

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission’s compliance with all of the following issues, and submissions may be returned to authors who do not adhere strictly to these guidelines.

• The authors must ensure that the paper presented has not been previously published or submitted elsewhere, to another journal for consideration.
• The submission file is in Microsoft Word format.
• The Abstract must be a single-line space without italicizing
• The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• Only the Endnote style of reference is accepted with a clear bias for MLA or APA style for flexibility.
• Do not use automatic footnotes, please to the above-mentioned reference style.  

Submit the manuscript through the following email addresses: cpscmjournal@gmail.com,  dejfat2009@tsuniversity.edu.ng  

Payment

Contributors on submission of their papers are required to pay the sum of ₦5,000.00 (five thousand Naira only) as an assessment fee. Papers accepted for publication will attract an additional ₦20,000 (Twenty Thousand Naira Only). Every correspondence should be addressed to cpscmjournal@gmail.com,  dejfat2009@tsuniversity.edu.ng  

Criteria for Acceptance and Rejection

 For the manuscript to be accepted for publication, it must: (1) be recommended by two or three referees; (2) address the comments and suggestions of the referees; (3) comply with ethical standards and protocols; (4) adhere to journal format and style; (5) pass Plagiarism Detection Test with a score of at least 10% or less. Grammarly, rating of 95% or more; and (6) be endorsed for publication by the International Editorial Advisory Board.

Publication Ethics Policy

JJOAS is committed to upholding the highest research and publication ethics standards and takes all possible measures against any publication malpractice. All accepted papers are subjected to a rigorous review process and stringent grammar and plagiarism test. Likewise, all authors are requested to declare that the paper/abstract submitted for publication in JJOAS is not published or considered for publication in part or whole in any journal or magazine for private or public circulation. They must agree to the hierarchy of authorship (in the case of co-authorship) depending on their significant contribution to the work to qualify for authorship. For funded research papers, authors are requested to declare and acknowledge the valuable support of agencies, institutions, and individuals in the research projects’ conduct. Any papers suspected of intellectual dishonesty and authorship falsification will not be published or retracted from the website.

JJOAS is indexed in DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Google Scholar, Academia, and Research Gate.

Publication Frequency   

JJOAS is published annually

Sources of Support

The journal is funded by the Department of History and Diplomatic Studies, Faculty of Arts, Taraba State University, Jalingo, Nigeria.

Disclaimer

The views expressed in the articles in this journal do not necessarily represent the views of anyone affiliated with JJOAS or of the Department of History and Diplomatic Studies, Faculty of Arts, Taraba State University, Jalingo, Nigeria.