A. Scope
The African Journal on Privacy and Data Protection (the Journal) is domiciled in the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos Akoka-Lagos, Nigeria and published once a year by the Pretoria University Law Press (PULP) in South Africa. The Journal is peer reviewed and open access. The first issue of the Journal is in press and will be released any time now. The Editorial Board of the Journal hereby invites articles, book/reviews and notes/comments on various aspects of privacy and data protection, generally, and perspectives on and from the continent of Africa, in particular, for the second volume of the Journal.
B. Main objectives of the Journal
The Journal aims to promote African expertise and literature on Africa in the area of privacy and data protection. More specifically, the Journal aims to:
● foster African-centred research and knowledge generation on privacy and data protection;
● fill the critical knowledge gaps in knowledge in this area as well as encourage privacy and data protection discourse from African perspectives;
● facilitate access of African scholars to new and developing knowledge in privacy and data protection as well as showcase African scholars and perspectives to the world.
C. Themes of papers to be submitted
● Original and well-researched papers focused on contemporary privacy and data protection issues, generally, and on Africa and African countries, in particular, are most welcome.
D. Submission of abstracts and timetable
● Authors interested in submitting a paper to the Journalshould submit an abstract of ±300 words by 30 April 2022.
● Abstracts should contain the title of the paper, a short description of its focus, the methodology to be adopted, a brief overview of the issues to be explored, and the expected findings or insights.
● Submissions should be emailed to [email protected]
● Decisions on abstracts will be communicated by 31 May 2024.
● Draft manuscripts of accepted abstracts are expected by 31 July 2024.
E. Guidelines for the submission of draft manuscripts
● The Journal is published in the English language.
● Only manuscripts that meet the objectives of the Journalidentified above will be considered.
● The Journal publishes only original works of the authors that have not been published elsewhere, and by submitting a manuscript to the Journal, authors are warranting that the submissions are original unpublished works.
● The proposed style guidelines for the Journal are the PULP style guidelines available at: https://www.ahrlj.up.ac.za/images/ahrlj/contributors_guide/2014%20STYLE%20GUIDELINES.pdf. These style guidelines should be strictly adhered to.
● Articles should contain an abstract of 150 to 300 words.
● Articles should contain the author’s name, affiliation and qualifications.
● The preferred length for all manuscripts submitted to the Journal is as follows:
(a)articles: 6 000 to 10 000 words;
(b)book reviews: 1 500 to 2 500 words;
(c)notes/comments: 3 000 to 5 000 words.
● Authors are to ensure that their articles are not plagiarised works and do not infringe the copyright of other authors as the Journal takes the issue of plagiarism and copyright infringement seriously.
F. Form of publication of the Journal
● The Journal is double-blind peer reviewed.
● The Journal is published only online and will also available on the PULP website at https://www.pulp.up.ac.za.
● The Journal is open-access. Registration with Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and other fitting organisations will be sought.
G. Conflict of interest
The Journal requires all authors to declare if they have any conflict of interest in relation to their manuscripts submitted to the Journal.
Please direct any correspondence or enquiries to the Journal’s Editors as follows:
Dr. Akinola Akintayo
(Managing Editor)
Email: [email protected].
