It is my pleasure to welcome you to Volume Two Issue One of our esteemed Journal, Global South Perspectives.
This is in observance of our commitment to create space especially on the world wide web for our research and publications to have visibility. As I pointed out in the last two issues, dissemination of findings is now acknowledged as the most important component of the research process. It is about the communication of innovation in our fields of expertise; this being either a planned and systematic process or a passive, unplanned diffusion process. Whichever means adopted, it is important to highlight that the utilization of research findings in policy or academic practice is sacrosanct for which effective communication is an important aspect of that process.
For a very long time and particularly since the 1950s; the time of early scholars like Cheick Antah Diop, the
global south scholar has had to deal with unsurmountable challenges in research but most particularly in disseminating their findings. Reasons being that opportunities are scarce or have been made scarce by some powers of agency who have made publication conditions very stiff with implications that the perpetuation of data with a neo-colonial Euro American centric north continue to populate the global south. This leads to the sustenance of coloniality of knowledge. The Journal Global South Perspectives is an objective vision of the Global South Epistemologies Research Centre(GLOSERC) that seeks to achieve the centre’s objective of decolonial knowledge dissemination. Volume Two Issue One is specific in its own right as it emanates from an open call for papers which non the-less meets the decolonial objective in two ways. It either provides new knowledge about a global south
context or issue or provides conceptual and theoretical clarity on a particular theme. In it you would find interesting articles about pertinent issues of history, culture, education and society. We wish you a happy reading of papers that meet your interest.
Roland Ndille
(The Editor)