期刊名称：International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity
印刷版ISSN：1818-6874
电子版ISSN：1753-7274
出版年度：2020
卷号：15
期号：1
页码：1-24
DOI：10.1080/18186874.2020.1831738
语种：English
出版社：Taylor & Francis Group
摘要：At the beginning of 2019, the editorial board of this journal, International Journal of African Renaissance Studies (IJARS), appointed me to pilot this plane. As I indicated in an earlier editorial, I requested to be allowed to serve only a year of my three-year term, so as to pave the way for my two anticipated deputy female editors. Prof. Jimi Adesina, professor of sociology at the University of South Africa (Unisa), and one of the editorial board members, dismissed my proposal out of hand, and told me in no uncertain terms that I would serve my term to the end. Prof. Adesina could do and did what he did because he knows that I have deep respect and affection for him and that I therefore would not defy him. Of course, I submitted to his bullying me. Even as I accepted his bullying, I had my own plans. I planned, as I indicated in an earlier editorial, that in my three-year term, of the six editorials I was expected to write, I would only write three, and I would let the rest be written by my sister deputy editors, Profs Zethu Cakata and Nokuthula Hlabangane. These efforts to centre our African sisters were in line with plans to maximise the chances of a woman succeeding me as editor, which would be a first for IJARS.
