Caaglop E-Journals

CAAGLOP electronically publishes four dynamic, interactive, peer-reviewed, policy-relevant analytical and research journals concentrating on African issues.

The CAAGLOP electronically publishes four dynamic, interactive, peer-reviewed, policy-relevant analytical and research journals concentrating on African issues:
Africa Child and Gender Policy Watch
Africa Conflict, War, and Human Rights Watch
Africa Health Policy Watch
Africa Policy Watch


The journals aim to reach people in Africa, the African diaspora, and the international community in order to raise awareness and promote dialogue between policy-makers, researchers, scholars, governments, NGOs, and the general public. Such dialogue is often encouraged but for which there remain insufficient means and mechanisms in place for its achievement. The CAAGLOP and its journals help bridge this divide.

These journals aim to create and establish a multi-pronged forum of policy, professional, and scholarly analysis, commentary, and examination for various actors, including policy-makers and researchers, scholars, community leaders, and development professionals and experts, and institutions, including governments, universities, think-tanks, and non-governmental organizations.

The organizing principle of the CAAGLOP's online journals is combining the best of peer-reviewed scholarship, professional analysis, and insightful commentary with the interactive features of new internet features and technologies. These journals are not simply static journals; instead, they present a new mode of policy, professional, and scholarly communication and publication involving an interactive online forum. These journals take the traditional, horizontal, top-down publishing process to a fresh and unique place by including the most dynamic aspects of the internet, such as user-generated content and self-organizing communities, and applies them to the rapidly changing environment of Africa-related policy, professional, and scholarly research.

These journals present multidisciplinary concentrations to help address and illuminate African issues including in the humanities (history, philosophy, religion, etc. ), social sciences (anthropology, area studies, cultural and ethnic studies, economics, gender studies, political science, sociology, etc. ), and professions and applied sciences (agriculture, business, education, environmental studies, health science, journalism, media and communication studies, law, library and information science, public administration, etc. ). The CAAGLOP therefore encourages contributions from a wide variety of authors in numerous fields, including (but not limited to) policy analysts, researchers, scholars, journalists, lawyers, development workers, and other professionals.

Each of the CAAGLOP journal looks for any rigorous research that has policy relevance, professional or scholarly approaches and perspectives, and high quality analysis, that directly concern and relate to Africa. Articles can discuss various areas and aspects of Africa including a single country, a particular region, a single population group, an international dimension, and so on.

The CAAGLOP's dynamic journals provide a multi-pronged, multidisciplinary, interactive forum of quality information, analysis, and examination in order to help policy-makers, policy researchers, community organizations, governments, universities, think-tanks, and NGOs address and tackle various African-related political, social, health, economic, and educational issues.