Special Issue: "Transformations in African Development" - Call for Papers

2026-02-06

Call for Papers

Human development is the process of promoting, enlarging, and transforming people’s opportunities, talents, and skills to improve human capacity, generate income, and enhance human rights and well- being. Genuine human development is anchored on the four pillars of equity, sustainability, productivity, and empowerment. The quality of human beings, or the human development index, in any society determines the speed of its societal transformation. Ironically, African societies are seriously undermined by the multiple challenges that weaken transformative development. These challenges range from poor governance to poverty, armed conflict, resource wars, ethnic tensions, political violence, and corruption. The rise of independence across Africa quickly transformed the nature of societal developments from the imperial culture of the colonial administrators to the rise of a new self- centred elite; however, indigenous schools, vocational centres and multiple forms of human capital development, as well as health institutions, scientific and medical breakthroughs began to emerge in the bid to ensure national speedy African development and transformation.

Consequently, scholars, researchers and private practitioners are requested to interrogate the multiple dynamics of African development. Papers should interrogate the quality of humanity, culture, values, and civilisation, in relation to promoting societal development and transformation. Thus, they are expected to turn well-researched empirical articles on any or some of the sub-themes below:

  • Theory of Development in Africa;
  • Accounting, economy and Development in Africa;
  • Religion, Philosophy, Sociology and Development in Africa;
  • Missionary, Vocational Activities, and Development
  • Literature, Languages and Development;
  • Theatre Arts, Music, Fine Arts and Human Development in Africa;
  • Multinational Corporations, Unionism, Civil Society, Human Development in Africa;
  • Public Administration, Management and Politics of Development in Africa;
  • Diplomacy, Migration, globalisation and African development;
  • Media, communication and Development in Africa;
  • Science, technology and Development in Africa
  • Terrorism, conflict and peace-building and Development in Africa;
  • Gender, Entertainment and Development in Africa;
  • Norms, litigations, laws and development in Africa.
  • Marketing and management in the African context

Time frames

Well-researched papers should be sent to info@pfresearchmanagement.co.za before 30th March 2026.

Accepted articles will be published in International Journal of Applied Research in Business and Management (DOAJ-indexed, DHET-accredited) 

Contact

For enquiries, please contact:

Dr. Francis Onyebukwa
Secretary
Francisonyebukwac@pfresearchmanagement.co.za
info@pfresearchmanagement.co.za

Note from the publisher

Please note that this special edition is being produced in collaboration with PF Research and Management Consults: For researchers who would like to publish in this special edition, PF Research and Management Consults is the point of contact - from the initial idea, through submission, review, and revision, to commercial processing and publication.