| 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...
The news of the untimely passing on of Professor Abubakar Momoh came as a shock to the CODESRIA community. On behalf of the Executive Committee, CODESRIA’s overall membership, and colleagues in the Secretariat in Dakar, we write to reiterate our deep shock and the sense of loss following this untimely departure on 29th May 2017. We join you in this...
The marginalisation of social sciences and humanities in African universities has radically stifled scholarship, according to CODESRIA – the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa. At a workshop in Nairobi, scholars from the diaspora and from Sub-Saharan Africa heard that this had narrowed the region’s view on development....
This year’s general assembly focused on the future of Africa and tackled a whole range of issues the continent grapples, with including terrorism and radicalisation of the youth. As a solution to the problem of terrorism, prominent political scientist Prof Mahmood Mamdani of Columbia and Makerere Universities, recommended that governments consider...
Political interference in Africa’s universities is not new. Universities’ governance was seen as “captured” for narrow political rather than academic ends during the 1980s and 1990s. Politics shaped everything: patterns of student access, curriculum content and teaching methods. Vice-chancellors’ political affiliations mattered far more than their academic...
Le CODESRIA (Conseil pour le Développement de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales en Afrique –ndlr) célèbre ses 43 ans d’existence en ce mois de février. Aminata Diaw administrateur principal du programme Formation de cette institution revisite avec nous le CODESRIA, les enjeux de la formation en Afrique, l’équation des moyens et les perspectives. Aminata Diaw...
In times of crisis, those who would like us to keep just one idea in our heads at any one time are quick to the megaphones. By framing events in Manichean terms – dark versus light; good versus evil – an imposed binary morality seeks to corral us into crude camps. There are no dilemmas, only declarations. What some lack in complexity they make up for in...
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By Munyaradzi Makoni and Karen MacGregor Violent protests and racial clashes closed universities around South Africa last week. Vice-chancellors called for help in identifying perpetrators of campus violence, who showed “total disregard for the academic project, the rules of engagement and the laws and Constitution”. There have been arrests, injuries,...
Titulaire de Chaire à Harvard, le Professeur Ousmane Oumar Kane vient d’être primé par son université pour la qualité et l’excellence et le professionalisme avec lequel il encadre ses étudiants. Le prestigieux prix« Everett Mendelsohn Award of Excellence in Mentoring » lui a été occtroyé par les autorités de Harvard University. Porfesseur Kane est un membre...