Open Access Policy
African Nexus Quarterly (ANQ) operates under a Diamond Open Access model. We believe in knowledge democracy and the barrier-free circulation of research findings to advance global scientific exchange.
No Author Fees (No APCs)
Authors are not required to pay any submission charges or Article Processing Charges (APCs). Publishing in ANQ is entirely free of cost for academic writers.
Free Access for Readers
All articles published in the journal are immediately and permanently free to read, download, print, copy, and distribute without any subscription barriers.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
Author Copyright Retention
Authors retain full copyright of their published work and grant the journal the right of first publication.
Self-Archiving / Repository Policy
Authors are permitted to deposit all versions of their articles (Pre-print, Accepted Manuscript / Post-print, and Version of Record / published PDF) in institutional or thematic repositories and personal websites without any embargo period, with proper citation and DOI link to the original publication.
Digital Preservation Policy
All articles published in African Nexus Quarterly are permanently preserved and deposited in Zenodo (CERN Open-Access Digital Repository), ensuring long-term access and preservation of scholarly outputs.