About the Journal

African Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Policy Studies (AJIRPS) is a research journal aimed at publishing high-quality research that cuts across various academic fields and at the same time tackles current policy challenges in Africa and elsewhere. The journal offers a platform through which researchers, academics, professionals and policymakers can present evidence-based research that can aid sustainable development, governance, education, health, economics, technology and social change.

AJIRPS embraces interdisciplinary research through the necessitation of collaboration between fields, including the social sciences, humanities, management sciences, environmental studies, and applied sciences. This wide scope helps the journal to present new pieces of work that can provide effective solutions to the complicated problems faced by society. AJIRPS aims at ensuring academic excellence, originality and relevance in all articles published after rigorous peer-review processes.

The journal is especially of interest to scholars who have interest in policy making and implementation because the journal focuses on how research results are related to the decision-making processes. AJIRPS assists in reinforcing institutions by linking theory and practice, and aids in informed governance throughout the African countries.

Moreover, AJIRPS helps to bring African scholarship into the limelight by providing local and international scholars to publish their results to an international audience. Being a knowledge-based journal, the journal is dedicated to the culture of research, innovation and intellectual dialogue to enhance national and continental development.