Copyright & Licensing

Copyright Notice

All authors published in UHURU from volume 5 onwards retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under an International Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives License (CC BY-ND 4.0), which means that anyone may share, copy, and adapt the material for any purpose, as long as they credit the author and this journal and do not distribute the modified version.

Volumes 1-4 of the journal is © African Studies Student Association all rights reserved.

Open Access Statement 

UHURU is a diamond open access journal that provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports the greater global exchange of knowledge. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access. Authors will never be charged to submit or publish a manuscript and all articles will be made available under a CC-BY-ND license, as indicated in the Copyright Notice section.

Self-archiving policy 

Under the terms of the Creative Commons license, authors are permitted to post their work online in institutional/disciplinary repositories or on their own websites. Pre-print (submitted) versions posted online should include a citation and link to the final published version in UHURU as soon as the issue is available; accepted manuscript versions (including the final publisher's PDF) should include a citation and link to the journal's website. 

Digital archiving policy 

This journal is archived with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Preservation Network. This journal is also archived with the Scholars Portal Journals Service, a certified Trustworthy Digital Repository by the Center for Research Libraries and part of the Keepers Registry. Both programs offer a decentralized and distributed preservation, perpetual access, and preservation of the authentic original version of the content.