YFEPublications
Six distinct formats. One direction. From 10-page monthly briefs to 80-page quarterly journals — each publication serves a different rhythm and depth of practice for practitioners across East Africa and the diaspora. All free. All open access. Start anywhere.
You're a practitioner
doing transformation work.
This is who we publish for, what we publish, and why it's always free.
Organisational leaders, programme officers, community builders, researchers, and advocates — anyone doing liberation-oriented work in East Africa and the diaspora.
Original research, practitioner frameworks, justice briefs, diaspora chronicles, and transformation tools. Designed for people who need knowledge they can act on the same day.
Knowledge that serves liberation cannot be locked behind extraction. This is not generosity — it is a structural commitment to how knowledge must move in the world.
Six formats. Each built for a different moment.
Each card shows the use case, reading time, and latest issue. Subscribe to any or all — always free.
Knowledge that serves liberation cannot be locked behind extraction. We publish everything. We hide nothing. We charge nothing. This is not generosity — it is a structural commitment to how knowledge must move.
Match your moment to the right format.
Select what you need right now. We'll show you exactly where to start.
When to expect each publication.
2026 publishing calendar across all six series. Numbers show which issue in the series.
What governs every word we publish.
Not preferences. Structural commitments.
In the YFE Store.
Books, guided journals, research briefs, field guides, and our weekly letter. Some priced to sustain the work. Some free because justice demands it. All produced to the same standard as everything else we make.
Research built
for your context.
Need something that doesn't exist yet? Commission original research, sponsor a studio's open programme, or bring existing frameworks into your organisation with dedicated support.
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