Mamadou Diouf
Mamadou Diouf is a Senegalese historian and specialist in colonial history and religion in Senegal. He is the Leitner Family Professor of African Studies and the Director of Columbia University’s Institute for African Studies. Before joining the faculty at Columbia University, he was the Charles D. Moody Jr. Collegiate Professor
Alice Urusaro Uwagaga Karekezi
Alice Urusaro Uwagaga Karekezi, a scholarly practitioner holds a PhD from the School of Global Studies, University of Göteborg focused on decolonizing international norm construction and a Master Degree from the University Aix-Marseille III. She has near 30 years of experience working in Post-conflict setting and reconstruction. Karekezi co-founded the
Assane Diouf
Headquarter and Maintenance Staff Assane Diouf is a cleaner in the CODESRIA secretariat, Dakar. Assane is Senegalese
Mouhamed Diallo
Headquarter and Maintenance Staff Mouhamed Diallo is a cleaner in the CODESRIA secretariat, Dakar. Mouhamed is Senegalese
Dzodzi Tsikata (2015 – 2018)
Dzodzi Tsikata is a Research Professor of Development Sociology and Director of the Institute of African Studies (IAS) at the University of Ghana since August 2016. Before this, she was based at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) during which time she was Deputy Director and Director
Fatima Harrak (2011 – 2015)
Fatima Harrak is a Historian and political scientist, a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies. She is a research scholar at the University of Mohamed V Institute of African Studies and served as its Director from 2003
Pr. Sam Moyo (2008-2011)
Sam Moyo (Zimbabwe) is professor and the executive director of the African Institute for Agrarian Studies (AIAS) based in Harare, Zimbabwe. He has more than 28 years of research and lecturing experience on rural development issues with a focus on land reform, agrarian change, environmental policy, and social movements. He has
Pr. Teresa Cruz e Silva (2005-2008)
Teresa Cruz e Silva, Mozambican, holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Bradford (United Kingdom). Currently an Associate Professor at the Centre for African Studies (CEA) and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique, she has in the past been
Mrs Zenebeworke Tadesse (2003-2005)
Zenebeworke Tadesse is an Ethiopian development specialist with degrees in Sociology and International Relations from Binghamton University, USA. Her area of specialization covers gender relations, governance, rural development and research on poverty. She is a founding member and first Executive Secretary of the Association of African Women for Research and Development
Pr. Mahmood Mamdani (1998-2002)
Mahmood Mamdani was born on 23 April 1946 in Bombay, India. He grew up in Uganda and acquired his B.A from the University of Pittsburgh, before going on to obtain his Masters and PhD from Harvard University in 1974. Mamdani specializes in the study of African and international politics, colonialism