Quo Vadis Africa? South Africa, Afrophobia and the Betrayal of Liberation Memory
CODESRIA Bulletin Online, No. 8, July 2026 by Ibrahim Abdullah, Department of History and African Studies, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone The latest upsurge of organised attacks against African migrants in South Africa is not merely another episode of ‘xenophobia’.
The Migrant and the Citizen: We Need New Forms of Political Community
CODESRIA Bulletin Online, No. 7, July 2026 by Suren Pillay, Centre for African Studies University of Cape Town South Africa "When we turn on the foreign migrant, we are looking into a mirror. The migrant is not the source of our problems.
South Africa’s Xenophobia: Can Thabo Mbeki Change the Narrative?
CODESRIA Bulletin Online, No. 6, July 2026 by Yusuf Bangura President Thabo Mbeki’s lecture during a high-level business breakfast on 22 May 2026[i] was a major pushback against the current xenophobia by black South Africans against African immigrants—a phenomenon that has generated
2026 Gender Institute
Theme: Gender and Indigenous Knowledge: Women as Knowledge Bearers 06TH – 11 TH JULY 2026 DAKAR, SENEGAL Director: Prof. Manji, Professor of Law, Cardiff University Resource Person: Dr Paul Awoniyi, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Gender and Social Policy Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University Draft
