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!

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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2026)
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Afrofuturism invites contributors to imagine the futures that emerge when African diasporic resilience, ingenuity, and hope converge. Across the continent and its global diasporas, Black and African communities have always been future-makers, dreaming and innovating to create worlds where liberation is not deferred, but lived. This volume asks: what does it mean to build futures on our own terms? How can our unique knowledge, art, technology, and youth movements shape the horizons we are reaching toward? It calls upon decolonial imagination to challenge who gets to define progress, innovation, and sustainability, and insists that African people are at the helm of their own realities. Africa is not a continent waiting to be developed; it is at the forefront of technological advancement, economic projection, and cultural transformation.

Published: 2026-04-04

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