Description
TITLE: African Thought: A Journal of Afro-centric Knowledge (AT-JACK)
ISSN: 2789-3391
Mission
African Thought: A Journal of Afro-centric Knowledge will be a South African based
journal in School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-
Natal. This journal seeks to publish articles that are mainly on African indigenous
knowledge systems from a multi-disciplinary perspective as well as from a comparative
perspective with other world knowledge systems. In its orientation, the journal is multidisciplinary
as it encourages scholarly reflection on African indigenous knowledge
systems across the disciplines. As a journal that is primarily concerned with African
indigenous knowledge systems, it also encourages scholarly reflection on the application
of these indigenous knowledge systems in various spheres of life, e.g. African politics,
religion, theology, ethics, psychology, philosophy, economics, history, sociology,
anthropology, science, medicine, ecological conservation, the natural environment, etc.
This journal has been envisaged as a forum on which to revisit the promotion of Afrocentric
knowledge, an area of study which has been neglected for so long in many
scholarly discourses in Africa and about Africa. Whilst the knowledge that has been
disseminated and taught at African tertiary institutions has been largely Western oriented
or Eurocentric, this journal aims to correct this discrepancy by giving an opportunity for a
direct scholarly reflection on the advancement of Afro-centric knowledge.