This document provides guidance for mobile learning researchers in Africa who want to publish an academic paper in the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning. It discusses why publication is important for recognition and career advancement. It also highlights the valuable research being done in mobile learning across Africa and how sharing this research can build communities and understanding. The document then provides examples of topics that could be covered and advice on writing a strong research paper, including ensuring the work is unique, relevant, rigorous, and repeatable. It stresses following the journal's guidelines for style and procedures.

1. Publishing a Mobile Learning Research PaperProfessor John Traxler

2. Who?mobile learning researchers in Africa who are hoping to submit an academic paper to a peer-reviewed journal, specifically to the African edition of the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning.

3. Why?Recognition, and promotion and funding, for academics and researchers everywhere, including Africa, depends on publication, specifically publication of research papers in recognized peer-reviewed journals.

4. Why?There is considerable research activity in mobile learning in Africa.This deserves greater visibility and recognition.There are stories to tell, ideas to share, communities to build.

5. Why?The last five or six years have seen a rapid apparent growth of mobile learning across Africa. Sometimes this replicates the experiences and challenges elsewhere, sometimes it responds to challenges of local infrastructure or the specifics of local culture; It represents the 'localized' version of global and corporate training

6. accessing the international knowledge economy, OR

7. the work of social entrepreneurs, not-for-profits and m4d activists

8. supporting indigenous languages, traditional pedagogy and informal knowledge.It has been sadly under-documented and under-reported and deserves a wider global audience.

9. What?Theories of mobile learning in Africa

10. Practical experiences of mobile learning in Africa

11. The African mobile learning context

12. Characteristics and challenges of infrastructure and culture

13. Local interpretations of mobile learning

14. Supporting indigenous languages and local cultures

15. The role of traditional pedagogy and informal knowledge

16. Understanding mobile learning in an African context

17. Social media in a mobile environment