Open Access Policy

Open Access refers to the free, unrestricted online access to published research, allowing readers to view, download, distribute, and use the content, provided the original source is properly cited.

The African Journal of Governance and Development operates under a Gold open access model, which guarantees that each article’s final version is openly and permanently available to everyone immediately upon publication. Under this model, users have unrestricted rights to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the articles without prior approval from the publisher or the authors.