Meaning-making Research Initiatives (MRI): Methodology & Scholarly Writing Workshop

Date: December 2-4, 2019 Venue: Kigali, Rwanda CODESRIA in collaboration with the Center for Conflict Management of the University of Rwanda is organizing a Methodology and Scholarly Writing Workshop for its 2019 Joint Africa-Diaspora Meaning-making Research Initiatives (MRI) cohort. The workshop is being held in Kigali, Rwanda and has brought...

Meaning-making Research Initiatives (MRI) Publication and Dissemination Workshop

Date: November 28-30, 2019 Venue: Kigali, Rwanda On November 28-30, 2019, CODERIA in collaboration with the Center for Conflict Management of the University of Rwanda organized a Publications and Dissemination Workshop for the 2017 cohort of its Meaning-making Research Initiatives (MRI). The workshop was held in...

Why is your PhD taking so long? Ask your supervisor by Maina Waruru

Supervisors of doctoral students who saw their students as ’competitors’ offered insufficient support, failed to facilitate the relevant training and were partly to blame for delays in the completion of doctoral programmes and high student drop-out rates, a recent seminar for doctoral mentees heard. According to Chacha Nyaigotti-Chacha, chairman of...

Prof. Adebayo Olukoshi: New Chair of the CODESRIA Scientific Committee

Prof. Olukoshi is the Regional Director for Africa and West Asia at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) based in Addis Ababa Ethiopia and also former Executive Secretary of CODESRIA. He has vast experience leading institutions engaged in various intellectual and policy work. He is widely published on a range of...

Dr. Marema Toure: New Vice-chair of the CODESRIA Scientific Committee

Dr. Marema Toure Thiam is Senegalese, a sociologist by training and works as the Chief of the Social and Human Sciences Sector (SHS) at the West Africa Office of UNESCO. She has had a long association with the scientific activities of the Council and her intellectual work has focused on gender as her field of interest. She is also widely published on a...

Inauguration of The New CODESRIA Scientific Committee

At its 92nd meeting in Dakar, the CODESRIA Executive Committee appointed 12 senior academics to the Council’s Scientific Committee. Eleven of those appointed accepted their appointment and have signed up to the responsibilities of the committee. The Scientific Committee is a charter organ in the governance structure of the Council with the mandate to...

CODESRIA 2019 Session of the Gender Institute: Informal Economies and the Financialization of Micro-Credit in Africa

Dakar, 17th-28th June The theme for the 2019 session of the gender institute focuses on the broad issues revolving around the implications that increased financialization of microcredit schemes has on women’s informal enterprises in Africa. While in the 1970s, informality was presented in the literature as a temporal phase from where enterprises would...

CODESRIA Call for Proposals

Honorary Doctor of Laws degree for Prof. Thandika Mkandawire

The University of York, Canada will confer upon Prof. Thandika Mkandawire, former Executive Secretary of CODESRIA and Professor at London School of Economics, an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree on October 14th 2018. The honour will be in recognition of Prof. Mkandawire’s excellent record in scholarship and research in the area of development studies. The...

SAMIR AMIN (1931-2018): A TITAN HAS GONE HOME TO REST

The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) wishes officially to inform members of the African intellectual community of the passing on of Professor Samir Amin on Sunday, 12th August 2018. For CODESRIA, this marks nothing less than the end of an era in the history of African social research given the many pioneering...