Focus and Scope

New Dimensions for Africa’s Development is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal which is devoted to the critical analysis and discussion of current issues of development. The journal receives articles from Pure and Applied Sciences, and intellectual persuasions concerned with development. Empirical, theoretical and historical articles are all welcome.

New Dimensions for Africa’s Development regularly publishes the first results of important new field-based research. The journal invites notes and comments on the articles it publishes, with the objective of stimulating informed policy and theoretical debate.

Publications Audiences

NDAD recognizes the following audiences for information dissemination through its publications;

  • International scientific community
  • Grassroots communities/community based organizations
  • Development actors
  • International agencies
  • Donors, Decision makers and Policy makers
  • Students of PAID-WA
  • The general public

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Review Policy

Outline the journal's peer review policy and processes for readers and authors, including the number of reviewers typically used in reviewing a submission, the criteria by which reviewers are asked to judge submissions, typical time taken to conduct the reviews, and the principles for recruiting reviewers. This will appear in About the Journal.

 

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

About NDAD

New Dimensions for Africa's Development(NDAD) was established in 2015 with the aim of extending frontiers of knowledge through the publication of scholarly, well investigated articles and books on innovative development issues.
The mission of NDAD is to strive to be a voice that articulates innovative development issues with a view to advance the intellectual and human resource capacity of West African and the international community. NDAD will continue to perfect itself as a leading centre of excellence in handling community-based development issues at the global, continental, regional, and local levels for the attainment of international development goals and initiatives.