OurRoot® welcomes manuscripts from authors of not more than five thousand words, aimed at familiarizing and/or educating Africans, friends of Africa and the world about African people, politics, culture, development, tourism, resources, education, population, women, agriculture, the list goes on. Manuscript on any subject will be considered on its own merit.
We consider for publication original research that has not been previously published. Submission to OurRoot® implies your agreement and that the submitted manuscript is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Submission also implies thast authors agree to abide by OurRoot® publishing policies.
Upon receipt of the manuscript, members of OurRoot® Editorial Board would review the manuscript, and if considered worthy of publication, the author would be informed. Authors are required to authorize, in writing, the publication of their manuscripts. By authorizing OurRoot® to publish the manuscript, the author guarantees OurRoot® that the manuscript is the original work of the author, free from all forms of plagiarism and that there are no unauthorized, confidential or sensitive information.
By submitting a manuscript to OurRoot®, you automatically grant the OurRoot®, for a period of ten (10) years, renewable at the Company’s option, a royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive, assignable, transferable and sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, transmit, perform, and display such content or information (in whole or in part) contained in the manuscript worldwide for any purpose and/or to incorporate into other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in such content or information
Authors hereby represent that they have all necessary capacity and rights to make the manuscript available to the Company, and they also acknowledge and agree that such manuscripts are non-confidential for all purposes and that the Company has no control over the extent to which any idea or information within a manuscript may be used by any party or person once such content is posted or displayed on the Websites. If after publishing the manuscript, OurRoot® discovers false, inaccurate, untrue, or incomplete information in the manuscript, the Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to immediately and without notice terminate, remove the manuscript from the Website, and if need be, make official representation to appropriate authorities to this effect.
Once the manuscript is published, it becomes the property of OurRoot® except any liability that may arise as a result of plagiarism or the use of any copyrighted images, photos, graphs, texts, etc., without the permission of the original author.
Conditions for the submission of articles
By submitting the manuscript for publication in OurRoot®, you agree to be held solely responsible for your own submissions and the consequences of publishing them. In connection with each of the submissions, you affirm, represent, and/or warrant that:
- you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize us to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all such submissions to enable inclusion and use of such submissions in the manner contemplated by us and these Terms and Conditions; and
- you have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in such submissions to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of such submissions in the manner contemplated by us and these Terms and Conditions.
In furtherance of the foregoing, you agree that you will not:
- submit material that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from their rightful owner to post the material and to grant us all of the rights granted herein;
- publish falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage us or any third party;
- submit material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law, or is otherwise inappropriate; or
- You understand that once your manuscript is accepted for publication, it become the property of OurRoot®. Accordingly, we reserve the right not to publish the manuscript, right to remove the submission from the website or may authorize the manuscript to be distributed, syndicated to or published on other OurRoot® platforms, without prior notice.
Author's Guidelines
Manuscripts must be sent to the Principal Editor through the online submission system. No email submission will be accepted or acknowledged. To submit an article, click on “Submit your articles” on the homepage and follow the registration instructions.
Submissions are invited and must be original manuscripts that have not been published elsewhere and are not under consideration for publication by another journal. The manuscript must carry: (i) Name of the author(s); (ii) Title of the article; (iii) Abstracts, (iv) A brief bio data of the author, and bibliography/works cited. In case of review articles, it is the responsibility of the author to obtain permission from the copyright holder to reproduce figures or tables that have been published elsewhere.
Double-space all material (text, quotations, figure legends, tables, references, etc.). Use a 12-point font (preferably Times Roman).
