| Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa |
| Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique |
| Conselho para o Desenvolvimento da Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais em África |
| مجلس تنمية البحوث الإجتماعية في أفريقيا |
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The Vice President of the Executive Committee of Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Professor Nkolo Foe was the guest of pan-African television channel, Ouest TV. He talked extensively about CODESRIA, its vision, mission and objectives, as well as its...
Prof. Elikia M’bokolo, an erudite African historian honoured by CODESRIA. The event took place on Saturday October 24th 2015 in the premises of CODESRIA in the presence Prof. Iba Der Thiam, the rector of the University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar Ibrahima Thioub, Prof. Boubacar Barry Thierno Ba, Penda Mbow, Bouba Diop among other eminent scholars. “The...
Dakar: Friday 14 April 2017 It is with profound regret and extreme sadness that I write, on behalf of the President of CODESRIA Dzodzi Tsikata and on my own behalf, to inform the CODESRIA community that professor Aminata Diaw, immediate past head of the CODESRIA Training, Grants and Fellowships Programme has passed away. This sad event occurred last...
Dear CODESRIA Members, Dear Colleagues, The dates of the 14th General Assembly of CODESRIA are fast approaching. The Scientific Conference of the General Assembly (GA) will be held on 8-9-10 June 2015, and the business/governance session will be held on 11 and 12 June 2015. One of the important items on the agenda of the governance session is the...
Williams Ezinwa Nwagwu Africa Regional Center for Information Science, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria and Department of Information Studies, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa Purpose – The purpose of this study was to examine how the identity of undergraduates who use social networking sites in selected Nigerian universities in...
في جنوب افريقيا ايضا
...العنف ..ورفض الآخر
حلمى شعراوى عندما يتصاعد العنف بنفس القسوة ( وإن ليس بنفس عدد القتلى ! ) فى أكثر من منطقة فى أفريقيا – وغيرها – ويتم ذلك بينما نقول أنها بيئات مختلفة فى جنوب أفريقيا عنها فى الصومال أو نيجيريا ، عنها فى ليبيا أو مصر .فما الذى يعنيه ذلك بالنسبة لمنهجية التفسير ، أو خلال البحث عن الأسباب المتقاربة وراء هذا التطرف فى مظاهر العنف ، ورفض الآخر أو ما يسمى كراهية أو رهاب الآخر ؛ الأجنبى ...Xenophobia...
"Today, the African flavor to Islamic practices is evident in the Americas, the Caribbean, and many European countries with significant concentrations of African Muslims and those of African descent." Before I make the case for why insulting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is an affront to Africans and people of African descent everywhere, it behooves me to...
My gratitude to Tendai and Fred, for reminding us, warming us, with these difficult summations of Sam in a time when thinking much less writing is so very difficult to do. Surely the flood of warm memories will cohere as we gather everywhere to celebrate Sam’s inestimable gifts to us and our unimaginable loss. What Fred, Tendai and others highlight...
Authors : Shamil Jeppie et Souleymane Bachir Diagne, (dir.) Reviewer : Pape Chérif Bertrand Bassène, Ph.D. Descriptive dictionary on Timbuktu and the history of sudani erudition “The Meanings of Timbuktu", is a collective work published in 2008 and translated from English by Ousmane Kane. This contribution to the African intellectual history was...
Les spécialistes africains du développement et des changements climatiques ne doutent pas que l’accord historique de Paris sur le changement climatique adopté unanimement en décembre dernier à Paris sera avantageux pour le continent. Lors du sommet de Paris, 195 pays ont convenu de réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre et d’améliorer l’adaptation de...