About the Journal
Uhuru: The McGill Journal of African Studies is dedicated to celebrating Black and African excellence, as well as scholarship while exploring the critical issues that shape Afro-diasporic voices. Our mission is to create a space where academic thought and creative expression come together to push meaningful conversations forward to eliminate the hidden dichotomies found in various parts of the world where people of African descent have settled such as in the United States, Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, and the Caribbean, as well as in Europe.
The UHURU Journal brings a fresh, dynamic approach that highlights powerful ideas, rich cultural narratives, and innovative storytelling from Africa and its global diaspora. Alongside written submissions, we enthusiastically welcome poetry, visual art, photography, and all forms of creative expression that capture the depth and vibrancy of Black and African experiences!
Current Issue
Readers of UHURU will immediately recognize the Journal’s overall sentiment of “Sharing?” That is, the ways in which cross-disciplinary work on Africa and the African diaspora contributes to our understanding of some of the most pressing issues not only in Africa but throughout the globe. Consequently, and taken together, the contributions to this volume not only center work on Africa in new, novel, and critical ways; they foreground the avenues through which scholarship on Africa and the African diaspora paves the way
for academics, students, and the wider community alike to understand that efforts at combating misrepresentations of our communities worldwide.
Khalid Mustafa Medani, PhD
Associate Professor of Political Science and Islamic Studies
Chair, African Studies Program
Director, Institute of Islamic Studies
