Thus, academic publishing is the natural outworking of an academic career. But why, despite publishing, are African academics in danger of perishing? Several factors conspire to marginalise the African scholar from the critical space of knowledge production. Increasingly, various hierarchies of scholarly production appear not to favour the African scholar. The African scholar thus faces a critical choice between sacrificing relevance for recognition, or recognition for relevance.

Source: Standard Digital June 23, 2017 20:26 UTC