Africa Development, Volume 31, No 4, 2006
In this book, Messay Kebede attempts to unravel the fundamental problems of African philosophy by examining different trends in contemporary African philosophy. Walking us through the terrain of a rapidly growing field of study, Kebede’s book uncovers, widens and enriches our understanding of African philosophy. He notes that European colonialists
Africa Development, Volume 31, No 3, 2006
As the blurb on its back cover indicates, Globalization and Social Policy in Africa ‘examines the different areas of significant contact between globalization and the lives of ordinary people in Africa’ through the use of ‘empirical and historical studies.’ The book contains fifteen chapters divided into four different parts that
Africa Development, Volume 31, No 2, 2006
Kane’s seminal work, Muslim Modernity in Postcolonial Nigeria: A Study of the Society for the Removal of Innovation and Reinstatement of Tradition, is a study of the Yan Izala or the Society for the Removal of Innovation and the Reinstatement of Tradition, which is the single largest Islamic reform movement
Africa Development, Volume 31, No 1, 2006
Indirect rule and association were the first colonial-period decentralisations. Colonial powers across Africa decentralised further after the Second World War. At independence most African nations consolidated their rule through re-centralisation, but later began to decentralise again within the first two decades of independence. The current wave of decentralisation, which began
Dani Nabudere’s Afrikology – A Quest for African Holism
Dani Wadada Nabudere, the illustrious Ugandan scholar, produced a divers body of work on various aspects of African culture, politics, and philosophy. Toward the end of his life, he formulated a theoretical construct that he termed “Afrikology.” Unlike most other Afrocentrists, who have stopped with
Gender and Fundamentalisms
When, why and how can religion and culture be both sources and places of expression for fundamentalisms especially when they are connected to politics? Those are central questions raised throughout this book. What is at stake here is religion when it underpins culture and becomes a political tool to access
White Ferocity: From Non-Whites to Non-Aryans Concealed Genocides from 1492 to Date
Rosa Amelia Plumelle-Uribe’s book La Férocité blanche: Des non-blancs aux non-aryens, génocides occultés de 1492 à nos jours was first published in March 2001. A German translation was published soon after. CODESRIA is honoured to release the first
AFRICA DEVELOPMENT AFRIQUE ET DÉVELOPPEMENT Vol. XLIV, No. 1, 2019
Quarterly Journal of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Revue trimestrielle du Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique
AFRICA DEVELOPMENT AFRIQUE ET DÉVELOPPEMENT Vol. XLIV, No. 2, 2019
Quarterly Journal of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Revue trimestrielle du Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique
AFRICA DEVELOPMENT AFRIQUE ET DÉVELOPPEMENT Vol. XLIV, No. 3, 2019
Quarterly Journal of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Revue trimestrielle du Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique