JOB VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT SENIOR PROGRAMME OFFICER (RESEARCH)
JOB VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT SENIOR PROGRAMME OFFICER (RESEARCH) Deadline: 31st August 2022 The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) invites applications from African scholars to fill the vacant position of Senior Programme Officer (Research) in its pan-African Secretariat located in Dakar, Senegal. This position falls within the senior staff
Africa Development Vol. 47 No. 3 (2022) Forthcoming Issue
Special Issue on Agrarian Change, Food Security, Migration and Sustainable Development in Senegal and Zimbabwe Guest Editors: Rama Salla Dieng, Geoffrey Banda & Walter Chambati Contents Introduction: Agrarian Change, Food Security, Migration and Sustainable Development in Senegal and Zimbabwe Rama Salla Dieng, Geoffrey Banda & Walter Chambati
CODESRIA BULLETIN No 1, 2022 IS AVAILABLE!
Over the last two years, political life in West Africa has been disrupted by what some have described as the ‘return of military coups in Africa’. Between 2020 and 2022, military-staged coups took place in Mali, Chad, Niger, Guinea, Sudan and Burkina Faso. To some observers, this was a return
CODESRIA Webinar Series: Higher Education as a Site for Struggle in Africa
CODESRIA invites you to a forthcoming webinar on the recently published text Chasing Freedom. This webinar conceptualizes Higher Education as a Site for Struggle in Africa and is inspired by the numerous stories of heroic struggle in the book Chasing Freedom: Histories, Analyses and Voices of Student Activism in South
Dr. Berit Olsson: A Truly Formidable Woman of Courage and Vision.
The Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA) received of the news of the passing on of Dr Berit Olsson, former Director of SAREC, Sida’s Department for Research Cooperation on Thursday 31st March 2022. We were happy to have been allowed to send a confidential note
5th CODESRIA/CASB Summer School in African Studies and Area Studies in Africa
Theme: How Political is Knowledge? Venue: Dakar, Senegal Date: 8-12 August 2022 Applications deadline: 30th June 2022 The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and The Centre for African Studies in Basel (CASB) call for applications for their 5th Summer School in African Studies and Area Studies in Africa.
Sovereign Reason: Issues in African Studies
SPEAKER Professor Elisio Macamo Professor of African Studies and Sociology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. DATE: 25 May 2022 TIME: 17:00 – 19:00 (SAST) RSVP on https://forms.gle/3udJLopEGGrP6NVJ6 to receive the Zoom details. Email vanessak@uj.ac.za if you encounter problems The Chair in Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa at the University of Bayreuth
CODESRIA hosts Norad at its offices in Dakar
CODESRIA receives in its premises Grete Benjaminsen from Norad to discuss ways of improving the partnership between our two institutions.
Note to the Community: Launch of the New CODESRIA Website
Over the last few years, CODESRIA has had to deliver on its mandate in increasingly creative ways so as to take into account the digital trajectory of our current knowledge economies. This was especially made urgent at the onset of the COVID 19 pandemic where the Council, like most institutions,
CALL FOR PROPOSALS : Gender Equitable and Transformative Social Policy for Post-COVID-19 Africa (GETSPA)
The Institute of African Studies (IAS) at the University of Ghana, with funding support from the Open Society Institutes of Africa, is calling for proposals for multi-country research that investigates the trajectories, processes and outcomes of social policymaking in Africa since the colonial period. Social policies have over the years