Contributions
ideas move the human race forward.
We appreciate your interest in contributing to the work we do at borg. our goal is to encourage innovative, interesting, and relevant legal & policy solutions to current social, economic, and political challenges both in Africa and transnational.
If you'd like to contribute, here are ways you can:
Ideas.memo
The ideas.memo accommodate diverse viewpoints on social, economic, legal, and policy-oriented issues. Every idea counts as long as you feel it can better society.
Length: 500 - 1200 words
- Op-ed style
- Use hyperlinks to appropriate sources or reference in the parenthesis instead of using footnotes
- Hyperlinks should be linked to a relevant part of the sentence instead of with words such as “click here” or “here”.
- All foreign words and maxims should be italicized with their English translation in parenthesis.
- Avoid jargon, slurs, and generally offensive language.
Policy Thinking
Contributions to the policy thinking series are either published as:
Articles: deep dive commentaries and analysis of current legal or policy issues.
Policy Letters - Short essays or commentaries on current policy topics.
Policy Briefs - a succinct evaluation of policy options.
Position Paper - Your fact-based position on a legal or policy-oriented issue.
Length : [Policy brief/letter] - 1500 words, [Position Paper] - 1000 words, [Article] - 2000 words
- Must include recommendations
- It should be professional and not just academic, while we are interested in the hypothesis, your informed position on what can be done is a priority.
- Remember our rule "it is better to be informed, than opinionated," your work should not just be your opinion but an informed one, provide sources in footnotes.
- if your work contains images, tables, charts, and graphs present in the layout of the policy brief it should also be submitted separately, i.e., all .jpg, .png, .bmp, .gif, .psd, etc.
Independent Research | White Paper
You conducted independent research, and you would like to share your research-based contributions to current debates.
Length: No general word limit but 12,000 words is appropriate
- Must be evidence-based and your abstract and methodology must be sent in a separate Word document
- Use footnotes and include a bibliography at the end of the work
Intellectual Property
Rights
Authors retain all rights in their work published on borg. Should you subsequently choose to re-post your work in any medium, publication or venue, please reference the initial publication with a link back to the original on this site.
Third Party Rights
borg. maintains a zero-tolerance policy on plagiarism and intellectual property rights infringements. Authors should ensure that they have the right to use all literary, work used in their submissions or have received documented permission from the copyright owner.
borg. reserves the right to take down any submission found to be in violation of the Intellectual Property rights of others at any time after the publication of the infringing material.
Author’s Information
All submissions must include biological information of the author to form the basis of the byline of the article. The information included may be the name of the author, their occupation, and links to social media handles.
Submit
Email your contribution to ideas@borg.re with “I Think: "insert Title” in the Subject line.
All contributions must be in the form of Word Doc. attached to the email.
Please note that while we will endeavour to respond to all submissions, we may not be able to respond due to the volume of submissions we receive. Please allow a period of up to two weeks for an initial response from us. If we have not responded to you after this period, please assume that your piece has not been accepted for publication at this time.