{"id":12,"date":"2026-08-27T17:25:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacadng.org\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2026-08-29T13:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T13:31:17","slug":"about-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jacadng.org\/index.php\/about-the-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a><strong>ABOUT THIS JOURNAL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Established in 2024, the <a>Journal of African Community and Development (JACAD)<\/a> is a peer-reviewed, open-access <a>(print-on-demand<\/a>) journal that welcomes submissions of original, previously unpublished manuscripts engaging all fields and sub-fields of history, art, literature, language, culture, sociology, anthropology, and humanities to promote a better understanding of past and contemporary community development at the local, state, national, and continental levels in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JACAD is committed to publishing manuscripts that&nbsp;analyze African communities&#8217; social, economic, cultural, and political transformations&nbsp;during the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published <a>twice yearly by the Patience and Claudius Anyanwu Foundation,<\/a> JACAD provides the needed platform for scholars and graduate students to showcase their original research, shedding light on the misconceived, mistaken, and missing narratives about African communities and thus provides a holistic appreciation of the African experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CONTACT US<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have any further inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a>Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Ogechi E. Anyanwu, Professor of African History, Eastern Kentucky University,<\/a> <a href=\"mailto:jacad@pacaf.org\">info@<\/a>jacadng.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;(859) 248-1394.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Editorial Assistant: Blessing C. Emodi (Ph.D. Student), University of South Carolina, <a href=\"mailto:bemodi@email.sc.edu\">bemodi@email.sc.edu<\/a>, 8037622275<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABOUT THIS JOURNAL Established in 2024, the Journal of African Community and Development (JACAD) is a peer-reviewed, open-access (print-on-demand) journal that welcomes submissions of original, previously unpublished manuscripts engaging all fields and sub-fields of history, art, literature, language, culture, sociology, anthropology, and humanities to promote a better understanding of past &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacadng.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacadng.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacadng.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacadng.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacadng.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jacadng.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/jacadng.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacadng.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}