Journal of African and Global Issues Quarterly (JAGIQ) Volume 1, Issue 1, 2021 is a journal that provides an avenue to scholars, researchers, policy analysts, think tank groups, as well as the civil society community to ventilate the various ramifications of the relations between environment and politics and development in Africa. The causal relationship between the environment and politics and vice versa has grown such that the scientific and political communities have fundamentally and unprecedentedly come to agreement as to the cause(s) of environmental problems. Hence, there is a growing recognition of government as the consumer of scientific findings on the environment such as that this journal portends. This point, in many respect, led to the inauguration of this journal. It is as a consequence of addressing environmental governance issues from the global level right to the local and municipal levels across the world and with special interest on Africa’s landscape that Journal of African and Global Issues Quarterly (JAGIQ) Volume 1, Issue 1, 2021 was established. Coupled with an ever-growing number of environmental movements and the broadening scope of environmental protection and environmental security advocacy and activism, the journal garners relevance. That is, a meaningful venture therefore to critically periscope the environment-politics nexus that this journal represents is because it appreciates the environment’s complex realities in our modern world. The necessity of this journal too stems from many cases of resource-rich nations in Africa that have largely failed to translate their endowments into mass wealth and development, and thereby give rise to what scholars have tagged ‘‘resource curse’’ and/or affliction, to entrench sustainable environment in the continent. Hitherto in the African continent, there has been recognised absence of much intellectual, academic and advocacy platforms upon which to discuss issues of environment-politics linkages in the continent in tandem with the rest of the world. While many existing academic mediums treat issues on the relationship between environment and politics as part of larger themes on  geography, agricultural science and the sciences generally, regrettably those in the humanities and social sciences have not fared better on this. It is for the reason of providing a platform for intellectuals in the humanities and social sciences alongside those in all other spheres of academic research that the Editorial Team purposefully pursued to ground Journal of African and Global Issues Quarterly (JAGIQ) Volume 1, Issue 1, 2021

ISSN: 2709-832X(Print) 27098338

 

Editor-in-Chief: Professor Victor Ojakorotu
School of Government Studies,
Department of Political Studies & International Relations
Faculty of Humanities
North-West University, Mafikeng
Tel: 018 3892259, Cell: 078 3756718
victor.ojakorotu@nwu.ac.za
Alternative Email: vojakoro@yahoo.com

Editor: Professor TJ Mudau
Institute of Gender and Youth Studies
University of Venda, South Africa