CODESRIA Bulletin Special 50th Anniversary Issues
Greetings from the Council, We trust you have been keeping well. On behalf of the Council, I am writing to request you to consider submitting an article for a special issue of CODESRIA Bulletin we are preparing. As you are already aware, the Council will be hosting its 16th CODESRIA General Assembly
Forthcoming Book: Diversity and the essence of Pan-African Arts
The Arts, artistic, and literary production in Africa are echoes of Africa’s cultural heritage in its diversities, its essence, its values, its realities and its contradictions, being transmitted across generations. These resonances are translated in different ways from one period to another and from one culture to the other. They
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
African perspectives on experimentation in the social sciences
Randomised controlled trials have become the research method of choice for scholars in a number of social science disciplines, including development economics, where both the associated methodologies and research findings have become very influential. So while the first randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in social science were pioneered in the United
Call for Papers: Colleagues, Assistants or Servants: the Epistemological Status of Fieldwork Assistants
Méthod(e)s: African Review of Social Science Methodology/Revue africaine de méthodologie des sciences sociales Editors:Lyn Schumaker, University of Manchester, UKJean-Bernard Ouédraogo, CNRS-EHESS, Paris, France. Against a backdrop of the marginalization of ethnography, a direct and often anonymous collector of "facts", the writing of the history of social sciences in the field confers privilege
Call For Papers: CODESRIA Bulletin Numbers 2, 3 & 4 2017
CODESRIA is seeking short contributions for the 2017 editions of its quarterly bulletin. CODESRIA Bulletin (ISSN 0850-8712) is a peer-reviewed publication which aims to stimulate critical discussion and encourage research cooperation amongst African(-ist) researchers around key debates/questions in Africa. CODESRIA Bulletin contributes to setting the research and intellectual agendas of/on
Chamada para Trabalhos: Boletim do CODESRIA Números 2, 3 & 4, 2017
O CODESRIA está à procura de pequenas contribuições para as edições trimestrais do boletim em 2017. O Boletim do CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-8712) é uma publicação analisada por pares que visa estimular a discussão crítica, bem como encorajar a cooperação na pesquisa entre os investigadores africanistas em torno de debates/questões fundamentais
Call for Guest Editors – Method(e)s : African Review of Social Science Methodology/ Revue africaine de méthodologie
The Editors of Method(e)s : African Review of Social Science Methodology/ Revue africaine de méthodologie des sciences sociales is soliciting guest editor(s) who are interested in editing collections of articles on the themes listed bellow. Prospective proposers are welcome to discuss their ideas informally with the Editors. The guest editor
METHOD(E)S: Call for Papers
Deadline: 30 October 2016 African Review of Social Sciences Methodology/Revue africaine de méthodologiedes sciences sociales Epistemological Fractures in a Globalized World: Normalizations, Debates and Alternatives in the Social Sciences Editors :Fernanda Beigel, Professor, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo – CONICET, ArgentinaJean-‐Bernard Ouédraogo, Research Director, CNRS, LAIOS, IIAC, EHESS, Paris,Raewyn Connell, Professor Emerita, University of
Call for Contributions: Issues and Challenges of the Transition to Digital Terrestrial Television in Senegal and the rest of West Africa
Deadline: 30 October 2015 Are you a researcher, media practitioner, information and communication technology (ICT) specialist, journalist, lecturer or engineer interested in the issue of the digital transition, its challenges and opportunities? Your thoughts and contributions may be of interest as you respond to this call for papers for the publication