Language Policy in Africa is a peer-reviewed french-language open-access journal published by Bern Open Publishing in Switzerland, operating under an open-access model since 2025. The journal covers Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, and African languages and literature.
Authors publish in Language Policy in Africa without paying any article processing charge (APC) — making it a fully diamond/platinum open-access venue, supported entirely by its publisher or sponsor. Articles are released under the CC BY, Publisher's own license license (see other journals using this license).
To date, Language Policy in Africa has published 33 articles. Articles are minted with DOIs through the prefix 10.36950.
Keywords
africa, language policy, local and national languages, language in formal domains
At a glance
- Publisher
- Bern Open Publishing
- Country
- Switzerland
- Primary language
- French
- License
- CC BY, Publisher's own license
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer review
- OA since
- 2025
- Review time
- 52 weeks
- DOI prefix
10.36950
ISSN
- electronic
- 3042-4046
Manuscript languages
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3042-4046 (electronic).