MIASA Publishing Workshop 2023

The MIASA Publication Workshop aims to foster research by African scholars to facilitate their publication in renowned African Studies journals. In doing so, it seeks to address asymmetries in knowledge production, which is the overarching goal of the Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA).

GIGA researcher Dr. Tim Glawion will take over the editorship of the GIGA journal Africa Spectrum on an interim basis starting in April, succeeding the GIGA’s Dr. Julia Grauvogel. Leonardo R. Arriola from the University of California, Berkeley remains co-editor of the journal.

This year’s second issue of Africa Spectrum contains three research articles on agrarian labour exchanges in Zimbabwe, the mixed effects of gender quotas in Burundi, and community awareness and restitution in Tanzania. Additionally, this edition also includes three engaging book reviews.

Outstanding contributions by researchers from all over the world feature in the GIGA’s four journals. The GIGA Journal Family is presided over by Sage, maintaining the ”platinum standard” of the Open Access model.

This second MIASA policy conference (on 21–22 November 2023) is meant to provide a space for exchange between researchers, policymakers, development practitioners, and other stakeholders in development to present and discuss the most recent policy-relevant research findings on Africa’s economic development, its present patterns and future.

MIASA Policy Conference “Policies for a Sustainable Rural Transformation in Africa”, ISSER Conference Hall, University of Ghana and online via Zoom Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa, University of Ghana, Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research Prof. Dr. Jann Lay (Panelist)

This comic addresses rural transformations in Africa. Between February and May 2020, researchers from different countries worked together virtually and at the Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa. This comic gives you an insight into our research.

The MIASA Publication Workshop aims to foster research by African scholars to facilitate their publication in renowned African Studies journals. In doing so, it seeks to address asymmetries in knowledge production, which is the overarching goal of the Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA).

GIGA researcher Dr. Tim Glawion will take over the editorship of the GIGA journal Africa Spectrum on an interim basis starting in April, succeeding the GIGA’s Dr. Julia Grauvogel. Leonardo R. Arriola from the University of California, Berkeley remains co-editor of the journal.