Category: 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 (Morocco) | CODESRIA Scientific Committee – L’indiscipline comme nécessité critique
i!i) Omar Berrada, (Morocco) – Sommes-nous vraiment un peuple ?» Solidarité en (temps de) crise
iv) Zakaria Rhani, Mohammed V University (Morocco) – Que dit la crise sur la colonie ? L’anthropologie et le défi de la décolonialité

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, 2001-2009 | Chair of the Scientific Committee
Takyiwaa Manuh, University of Ghana-Legon (Ghana), Chair of the Scientific Committee, 2008-2011

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, University Mohammed V (Morocco) , President of CODESRIA, 2011-2015
Dzodzi Tsikata, SOAS University of London (UK) , President of CODESRIA, 2015-2018

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, Mouvement Citoyen (Senegal)

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) Elisabeth Ndayisaba, Université Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso) – Face cachée des inégalités femmes-hommes dévoilée par la crise de la pandémie de COVID-19 en Afrique
iii) Odair Barros-Varela, University of Cabo Verde (Cabo Verde) – Rabidantes Women and the Informal Economy in Cabo Verde in the context of the pandemic and crisis era. Academic Activism for an Inclusive Economic Governance
iv) Sandra Bhatasara, Marondera university of agricultural sciences and technology (Zimbabwe) – Intersectional analysis of women’s experiences of gender-based violence in COVID-19 context in Zimbabwe

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) – Social Policy Responses to Covid-19 in Zimbabwe: Reflections on Fostering a Transformative Social Policy Agenda in a Post-Pandemic Context
ii) Kate Meagher, London School of Economics (UK) – African Informal Economies and the Will to Protect: Informality, Social Policy and the COVID Gaze
iii) Julia Chukwuma, The Open University (UK) – COVID-19 and Inequalities in Accessing Education and Healthcare in Nigeria
iv) Newman Tekwa, University of South Africa (South Africa) – COVID-19, Gender, and Social Policy Responses: Reflections on Zambia and Mauritius

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 College London (UK)

Speakers :
i) Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Khazanah Research Institute (Malaysia) – Pandemic lessons for Africa: Some Considerations for the Way Forward in our Times
ii) Joy Kwesiga, Kabale University (Uganda)
iii) Mukendi Andre, Université de Kinshasa (DRC) – Riposte contre la Covid-19, pauvreté et inégalités sociales à Kinshasa: contribution à la problématique de l’écart