General Assembly

Day 5: Friday, 8th December 2023 - 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Plenary Session 13: Décoloniser les savoirs / décloisonner les disciplines, en temps de crise Chair : Bado Ndoye, (Senegal) Presenters: i) Seloua Luste Boulbina, ICSP, Université Paris Cité (France) - Penser en passant (toutes) les frontières” ii) Driss Ksikes, Economia, HEM Research Center

Day 5: Friday, 8th December 2023 - 9:00 am – 10:30 am Plenary Session 12: Endnote Lecture Speaker: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University (USA) Title: Les leçons de la pandémie Chair: Kofi Anyidoho, University of Ghana-Legon (Ghana)

Day 4: Thursday, 7th December 2023 - 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Plenary Session 11: Nurturing the Next Generation Chair: Mshai Mwangola, Uraia Trust (Kenya) | CODESRIA Executive Committee Speakers: Brahim El Morchid, Université Cadi Ayyad (Morocco) | CODESRIA Executive Committee Member Therese Felicitee Azeng, Université de Bertoua (Cameroun) Kudus Adebayo, University of Ibadan (Nigeria)

Day 4: Thursday, 7th December 2023 - 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Plenary Session 10 : Implementing a Pan-African Scientific Agenda Chair: Georges Kobou, Université de Yaoundé II (Cameroun) Speakers: Ebrima Sall, Trust Africa (Senegal) , 6th Executive Secretary of CODESRIA, 2009-2017 Adebayo Olukoshi, Wits School of Governance (South Africa), 5th Executive Secretary of CODESRIA,

Day 4: Thursday, 7th December 2023 - 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Plenary Session 9: Governing the Council: Reflections by Former Presidents of CODESRIA Chair: Marema Toure Thiam, CODESRIA Scientific Committee (Senegal) Speakers: Zenebeworke Tadesse, (Ethiopia) , President of CODESRIA, 2003-2005 Teresa Cruz de Silva, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique) , President of CODESRIA, 2005-2008 Fatima Harrak,

Day 4: Thursday, 7th December 2023 - 9:00 am – 10:30 am Solidarity Speech Chief Guest: The Honourable Thoko Didiza, Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Republic of South Africa Plenary Session 8 : CODESRIA: Origin and Agenda Chair : Godwin Murunga, CODESRIA (Senegal) Speakers Peter Anyang Nyong’o, County Government of Kisumu (Kenya) Penda Mbow,

Day 2: Tuesday, 5th December 2023 - 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm Plenary Session 7: Militarisms in Contemporary Africa Chair : Amy Niang , Senior Programme Officer, CODESRIA (Senegal) Discussant: Shadrack Nasong’o, Rhodes College (USA) Speakers: i) Moses Khisa, North Carolina State University (USA) ii) Hamidou Magassa, CERNES (Mali)

Day 2: Tuesday, 5th December 2023 - 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Plenary Session 6: Panel - Gender and Pandemic Experiences Chair: Theresa Moyo, Researcher (South Africa) Discussant: Josephine Ahikire, Makerere University (Uganda) Presenters: i) Toyin Ajao, Imole of Afrika Centre (iAfrika) - Healing Justice SOULidarity: A Feminist Republik’s Collective Care Approach in a Pandemic ii)

Day 2: Tuesday, 5th December 2023 - 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Plenary Session 5: Social Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from Africa Chair : Jimi Adesina, University of South Africa (South Africa) Discussant: Dzodzi Tsikata, SOAS University of London (UK) Presenters : i) Clement Chipenda, University of South Africa (South Africa) -

Day 2: Tuesday, 5th December 2023 - 9:15 am – 10:30 am SOLIDARITY MESSAGES i) Kofi Anyidoho, University of Ghana-Legon (Ghana) ii) Nouria Benghabrit-Remaoun, Former Minister of National Education (Algeria) PLENARY SESSION 4: Cheikh Anta Diop Panel in Lieu of Lecture - Higher Education, Agency and Inequalities: Perspectives on Pandemics Chair : Funmi Olonisakin, King’s