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07/07/2025

The African Journal of AIDS Research (AJAR) will publish a special issue addressing the impact of HIV/AIDS funding cuts on research and interventions. It invites articles from African researchers on how they are sustaining HIV/AIDS and Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) research despite financial challenges, including strategies to maintain ongoing and future research efforts.
Read more: bit.ly/3Gc8Bhr
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30/06/2025

Please note that for much of the afternoon of Monday 30 June and all of Tuesday 1 July NISC email addresses will be going through a downtime period. We are migrating our domain host during which time our email server will be down.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused over this period. Please contact our office at 046 622 9698 for any urgent queries.

26/06/2025

Ostrich – Journal of African Ornithology will be publishing a special issue in December 2025, focusing on the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Ornithology. This special issue aims to showcase innovative research that applies AI to advance our understanding of bird species, conservation challenges, and biodiversity in Africa and beyond. The deadline for submissions has been extended to 15 September 2025. Read more: http://bit.ly/3ZPTUaf
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09/06/2025

Identifying and naming every plant and animal in nature is a challenging endeavour. Zoologist, Fortunate Phaka has taken on this task by leading the first in-depth study of how frogs and reptiles are named and classified across nine South African languages.

The paper, titled “Naming South African frogs and reptiles in nine Indigenous languages” features in Volume 74, Issue 1 of African Journal of Herpetology and documents 136 frog species and 407 reptile species, all of which have been scientifically recognized.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3HLyu7P
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Photograph: Fortunate Phaka (not for reuse).

28/05/2025

A Powerhouse of the Spirit: The Life and Art of Sister Margaret Watson of Grahamstown tells the story of a remarkable woman, Margaret Watson, who left her conventionally middle-class home in England to join an Anglican sisterhood in Grahamstown (now known as Makhanda). Watch more about this book and how to get a copy here:

Recently, author of A Powerhouse of the Spirit, William Barham, launched his book at Amazwi South African Museum of Literature in Makhanda. The book tells th...

26/05/2025

A call for papers has been issued for a special issue titled "The Enduring Contemporary Relevance of Maurice Merleau-Ponty" which will be published in the Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology. Read more: https://bit.ly/4mwKES7
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23/05/2025

The South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Volume 38, Issue one, includes an article titled "Paving the way to detect adult malnourished patients in resource-limited settings: the first step to the right to nutritional care". Read more about this article here: bit.ly/44RXV1c

14/05/2025

In Ghana the White-necked Rockfowl was thought extinct for over 40 years until its rediscovery in 2003, which led to efforts to locate additional populations. A study is featured in Volume 96, issue 1, Ostrich: African Journal of Ornithology titled "Trends and population size of White-necked Rockfowl Picathartes gymnocephalus within the Nyamibe Bepo Forest Reserve in Ghana".

Read more: https://rb.gy/k1xsxn

Photograph: Samuel Zhang
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03/05/2025

In association with SANLiC Taylor & Francis Africa Peer Reviewer Training provides detailed online training covering all aspects of how to be a peer reviewer. Join the webinar on Tuesday 6 May to learn more. Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5859894945611386459

23/04/2025

The sustainability of tuna stocks in the southwestern Indian Oceans remains a critical concern, with the stock status of tunas such as kawakawa Euthynnus affinis being poorly understood due to limited assessments although data available suggests potential declines.

African Journal of Marine Science, Volume 47, issue 1 2025 includes a special suite of papers titled ‘Small tunas, big significance – the rising importance of skipjack tuna and kawakawa in the southwestern Indian Ocean’.

Read more about this suite and how to read it at no cost until the end of June here:
https://bit.ly/44EzZ18

16/04/2025

The Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa is hosting it's annual musical arts-related essay competition which is open to undergraduate and honours students. The winning essay will be published in Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa Volume 22, 2025.
Last year's winner, Liza Lombard, speaks to her experience on our latest YouTube video here: https://youtu.be/2SQ59l1yOZg
Read the full news item with submission instructions here: https://rb.gy/yn19o1

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Undergraduate and Honours students are encouraged to enter an essay competition aimed at promoting research, scholarship and good writing about music in Afri...

20/01/2025

The African Journal of Range and Forage Science (AJRFS), a leading journal in the field of rangeland management, is developing a special issue on grazing management, to be titled Grazing Management in a Diverse and Dynamic World. To this end, the journal is issuing a call for papers. Read more here: https://linkcuts.com/5ucoip11
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