The volume 3 of the African International Journal of Contemporary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences is entitled Peace and Security in 21st Century Africa. This edition is a collection of selected essays that interrogate ideas, issues and practices that border on peace and security in Africa from either humanistic or social science perspective. These essays provide new and veritable insights on how past and recent issues and challenges bordering on peace and security in Africa are being interrogated by scholars both within and outside the African continent.

AIJCSHSS Journals are special-focus book editions that challenge scholars to address current issues in Africa in new innovative ways. Thus this special-focus journal breaks traditional journal boundaries by insisting on near uniform thematic thrusts from a multi-disciplinary perspective for all its editions. Foregrounded on above thriving parameters therefore, AIJCSHSS is innovative, it is new and it is trending.

In this edition entitled “Gender and Governance,” the journal boasts of two subsections “Gender” and “Governance” where many scholarly papers from Humanities and Social Sciences address contemporary issues in Africa from this foci. Thus all the selected essays in this edition interrogate ideas, issues and practices that address issues of “Gender” and “Governance” in Africa and African Diaspora from various field of scholarship especially the Humanities and Social Sciences.

This edition is an assemblage of critical, well researched original essays projecting new theoretical and empirical paradigms which will be of special interest to academics, researchers and students interested in studies on Africa. In all, the essays provide new and veritable insights on how contemporary issues and challenges bordering on themes of gender and governance affect Africa and Africans in the 21st Century.

Justice and Human Dignity is a collection of essays written by renowned world scholars in honour of Professor Austin Chukwu. An activist, Professor Austin Chukwu is Professor of English and the Humane Letters.

The body of essays here breaks traditional festschrift boundaries by focusing on near-uniform thematic pre-occupations from a multi-disciplinary perspective, especially the Humanities and Social Sciences. Thus all the selected essays in this collection interrogate ideas, issues and practice that border on justice and human dignity in Africa and African Diaspora.

This collection of essays is an assemblage of critical and well-researched essays projecting new theoretical and empirical hindsight which will be of special interest to academics, researchers and students of African Literature, Children’s studies, Languages and Linguistics, Religion, Media Studies, History, Economics, Finance, Political Science, Leadership and Governance, Peace and Conflict Studies, Gender Studies and Studies in African Diaspora. In all, the essays provide new and veritable insights on how past and recent issues and challenges bordering on themes of justice and human dignity affect Africa and Africans in the 21st century.