Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): Wehemu Mesu (Repetition of the Births): Africology & Africana Studies Scholarship and Advancing the African Renaissance

Imhotep Graduate Student Journal is a peer-reviewed, open access journal managed by the graduate students of the Africology and African American Studies Department at Temple University. More than thirty-six years ago, in January 1989, the Imhotep Graduate Student Journal was first published as a platform to explore global African phenomena and to rediscover African epistemologies through intellectual discourse. Imhotep Graduate Student Journal provides an opportunity for developing scholars to gain experience with peer review academic publishing.

We invite current graduate students in Africana Studies to submit abstracts for original research papers (15-22 double spaced pages). The Imhotep Journal especially encourages the submission of revised term papers, conference presentations, or thesis chapters. The 2026 issue will consist of submissions which ask a broad range of research questions that engage the African Renaissance in this contemporary moment and the power of culture to shape the future and utilize Afrocentric methodologies to bolster African/Black cultural reconstruction and well-being beyond the academy.