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CALL FOR PAPERS FOR UFAHAMU

CALL FOR PAPERS CLOSES JANUARY 26th, 2026

The editors of Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies are currently accepting submissions for Volume 44, Issue 1. This innovative issue seeks to bring various disciplines and methodologies in conversation with one another through new submissions including, but not limited to:

Essays

Book reviews

Arts (can include visual arts, poetry, fiction, art criticism, exhibition reviews, etc.)

This call seeks abstracts that directly engage with the theme Afrofuturism and investigate the following questions: How can we look to the past in order to find a better future? How can theoretical frameworks from Africa and African Diaspora heighten how we examine the past, present, and future? We encourage interested authors from across academic disciplines and creative fields to submit abstracts for essays, book reviews, and visual arts that expand on these questions and probe others that address themes such as:

Activist-Intellectualism

African Epistemologies

Afrofuturism, Black Speculative Futures, Archives and Manuscripts, Material Culture, Book History Artistic Resistance, Black Arts Movement

Black Ecologies

Black Feminist Theory/Approaches

Black Freedom

Black Geographies

Black Marxism

Diasporic History (Atlantic, Caribbean, Indian Ocean World)

Genocide

Indigeneity, Indigenous Knowledges Migration, Immigration, Refugee Border States, Nation States Ancient African Studies, Antiquity Pan-Africanism, De-Colonization

Premodern Studies

Saharan History

Urban Spaces, Popular Culture, Adaptations

To apply, please send submissions to ufahamu@gmail.com by January 26th, 2026. Late submissions will not be considered.

Ufahamu’s full catalog is freely available and digitized at
https://escholarship.org/uc/international_asc_ufahamu/1/1

To view the 'Call for Papers UFAHAMU' flyer, please visit https://international.ucla.edu/media/files/CallForPapers_UFAHAMU-lk-1r0.pdf

For more information about Ufahamu, please visit https://international.ucla.edu/asc/ufahamu

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