Terrorising Academic Freedom in Tanzania
CODESRIA Bulletin Online, No. 10, July 2026 by Issa G. Shivji, Professor Emeritus, University of Dar es Salaam On 3 July 2026, Melkisedeki Kitunzi Kaijage, an assistant lecturer in Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Dodoma (UDOM), was summoned
Quo Vadis Africa? South Africa, Afrophobia and the Betrayal of Liberation Memory
CODESRIA Bulletin Online, No. 8, July 2026 by Ibrahim Abdullah, Department of History and African Studies, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone The latest upsurge of organised attacks against African migrants in South Africa is not merely another episode of ‘xenophobia’.
The Migrant and the Citizen: We Need New Forms of Political Community
CODESRIA Bulletin Online, No. 7, July 2026 by Suren Pillay, Centre for African Studies University of Cape Town South Africa "When we turn on the foreign migrant, we are looking into a mirror. The migrant is not the source of our problems.
South Africa’s Xenophobia: Can Thabo Mbeki Change the Narrative?
CODESRIA Bulletin Online, No. 6, July 2026 by Yusuf Bangura President Thabo Mbeki’s lecture during a high-level business breakfast on 22 May 2026[i] was a major pushback against the current xenophobia by black South Africans against African immigrants—a phenomenon that has generated
Walter Rodney and the Unclaimed Past: Sierra Leone Historiography’s Refusal of a Radical Inheritance
CODESRIA Bulletin Online, No. 5, June 2026 by Ibrahim Abdullah, Department of History and African Studies, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone Walter Rodney occupies a strange place in the historiography of Sierra Leone. He is everywhere and nowhere. His work shadows
When Lawfare Becomes Warfare: Personal Stories, Political Landscapes
CODESRIA Bulletin Online, No. 4, June 2026 Issa G. Shivji, Professor Emeritus, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania When the bourgeoisie feels confident, when there is relative peace and stability, and when the class struggle is at a low ebb, bourgeois rule
Fantu Cheru: An Obituary (1949 –2026)
CODESRIA Bulletin Online, No. 3, June 2026 by Dr Cyril Obi, Programme Director, Social Science Research Council, New York (former NAI senior programme researcher) Carin Norberg, Director: Nordic Africa Institute (2006–2012), Stockholm Lennart Wohlgemuth, Director: Nordic Africa Institute (1993–2005 Professor Fantu Cheru was an internationally
The Compradorial Intellectual Challenge in Africa
CODESRIA Bulletin Online, No. 2, May 2026 Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Professor of History & Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Pluralistic Societies: Epistemic Pluralism and Ecologies of Knowledges, Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada Emails: sjndlovugatsheni@gmail.com /
Generative AI in Global Scientific Knowledge Production: Challenges and Prospects for Africa
CODESRIA Bulletin Online, No. 1, March 2026 by Jacob Jaygbay, Senior Content Developer, Cloud + AI, Microsoft, Virginia, USA This paper examines the transformative impact of large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 on global scientific research, and highlights the potential benefits and
Trump Threatens Military Action in Nigeria: Musings on his Real Intentions
CODESRIA Bulletin Online, No. 12, November 2025 by Yusuf Bangura The widely circulated article in Global Geopolitics (2 November 2025), ‘America’s Hypocrisy as Policy’, offers a thoughtful reaction to US President Donald Trump’s insane but self-serving threat to invade Nigeria under
