We invite the submission of original unpublished full papers for the conference. Submission of a full paper (in PDF) not exceeding 8,000 words (including notes, tables, appendices, list of references, etc.) can be submitted against any of the themes mentioned above. All papers should be submitted for assessment via ConfTool an online conference management system that will be open from 1st June 2024 at the conference website. Paper submissions will be accepted through this system up to the 10^th July 2024. AfricaLics reserves the right to use available software to control plagiarism and to take appropriate action in severe cases. If authors used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to develop papers, this must be clearly stated and properly referenced in the papers submitted. All papers submitted will then be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the Conference Scientific Review Committee (to be made up of members of the local organizing committee in Nigeria, members of the AfricaLics Scientific Board, and senior scholars from the AfricaLics community). Each paper will be reviewed by two reviewers and scored on relevance to conference themes, originality, research methods, and scientific quality. In case of huge differences regarding scoring, a third review will be undertaken. The principal authors of the accepted papers will be notified after 1st September 2024. Final papers must be uploaded to the conference website by 10^th October 2024.