Publisher

Institute of Kiswahili Studies

Publisher contact person: Timothy T. Mapunda
Email: iks@udsm.ac.tz 
Phone: +255-22-2410757
Fax: +255-22-2410334
Mailing address: Box 35110 Dar es Salaam - Tanzania

Sources of Support

Institutional funding & subscriptions & cash sales.

Peer Review

MULIKA journal uses double-blind review system, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process.  To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity. The following procedures serves as guidelines in the peer-review system used by MULIKA journal.

  1. Editors reject the submission that doesn’t meet the journal’s Editorial objectives.
  2. Editors select up to three reviewers and ask them to evaluate the manuscript against a set of criteria. The reviewers are given a maximum of three weeks to to send their comments to the editors. 
  3. Editors receives the reviewers recommendations.
  4. Editors make final decision taking into account the reviewers recommendations as indicated in the table below.

 

Accept

Reject

Revise

- The editors notify the author that their paper has been accepted.

-The paper is published

-The editors notify the author that their paper has been rejected 

-and shares the copy of the reviewers comments

-The editors notify the author that their paper requires revisions

 -and shares the copy of the reviewers comments

-The authors resubmit their revised paper

-The editor send the revised paper to the same reviewers

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

The Journal is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Publication Scheduling

This journal publishes two issues/volume per year. 

General

Hard copies of the journal are sold through annual subscription and retail outlets as outlined in the form below

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION

For institutions

For individuals

Account name 

US $40 including postage

US $20 including postage

UDSM IKR CONFERENCE

University of Dar es Salaam

Bank Account Number 

Bank Name 

Branch Name 

Branch Code 

Swift Code

040105000186

National Bank of Commerce

UDSM Branch

40

NLCBTZTX

  • Furthermore, purchasers can make through the following addresses:

Director 
Institute of Kiswahili Studies
University of Dar es Salaam
P.O.Box 35110
Dar es Salaam

  • Or can contact the Director through the following email and website:

Email: iks@udsm.ac.tz 
Website: www.udsm.ac.tz/iks


Journal Identifiers


eISSN: 2546-2202
print ISSN: 0856-0129