Can I Afford to Publish? A Dilemma for African Scholars
Addisu Mekonnen1,2,3*, Colleen Downs4, Edu O. Effiom5, Mohamed Kibaja6, Michael J. Lawes4, Patrick Omeja7, Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina8, Onja Razafindratsima9, Dipto Sarkar10, Nils Chr. Stenseth3,11, Colin A. Chapman12,13,14,15
1Department of Wildlife and Ecotourism Management, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
2Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
3Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
4School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa,
5Cross River State Forestry Commission, Calabar, Nigeria
6Department of Zoology and Wildlife Conservation, University of Dar Essalam, Dar Essalam, Tanzania
7Makerere University Biological Field Station, Fort Portal, Uganda
8Zoologie et Biodiversité Animale, Université d’Antananarivo, BP 906, Antananarivo, 101 Madagascar
9University of California, Berkeley, Department of Integrative Biology, Berkeley, USA 94720-3140
10Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
11Department of Zoological Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
12Wilson Center,1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004,
13Department of Anthropology, The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA, 20037,
14School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa,
15Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Animal Conservation, Northwest University, Xi’an, China
Email: Addisu Mekonnen - addisumekonnen@gmail.com, Colleen Downs - Downs@ukzn.ac.za, Edu O. Effiom - edu.efiom@gmail.com, Mohamed Kibaja – mkibaja@gmail.com, Michael J. Lawes - MichaelLawes62@gmail.com, Patrick Omeja – Omejap@yahoo.com, Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina - fanomezanarts@gmail.com, Onja Razafindratsima - onja@berkeley.edu, Dipto Sarkar - dipto.sarkar@carleton.ca, Nils Chr. Stenseth - n.c.stenseth@mn.uio.no, Colin A. Chapman - colin.chapman.research@gmail.com
Running title: Can I afford to Publish