The Making of the Essential Mamdani: Reading Citizen and Subject After Three Decades
CODESRIA Bulletin Online, No. 12, September 2026 by Ibrahim Abdullah, Department of History and African Studies, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone ‘Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.’ Frantz Fanon La Problématique Thirty years
17th CODESRIA General Assembly: CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANEL PROPOSALS
Africa in Times of Rapid Global Transformation: Reclaiming Agency, Rethinking Leadership, Advancing Justice. September 6th 2026 (extended deadline) Venue: Dakar, Senegal Date: 7th to 11th December 2026 The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is pleased to announce its
2026 AFRIAK Induction Workshop
CODESRIA is organising an Induction Workshop for the second cohort of the African Fellowships for Research in Indigenous and Alternative Knowledges (AFRIAK), to be held in Cotonou, Benin, from 4 to 12 August 2026. View More
AFRIAK: 2026 Selection Report
CODESRIA Bulletin Online, No. 9, July 2026 Introduction The African Fellowships for Research in Indigenous and Alternative Knowledges (AFRIAK) programme is implemented by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation. The
2026 DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE INSTITUTE
THEME: “MIGRATION GOVERNANCE”: RETHINKING MOBILITY AND DEMOCRATIC AGENCY IN AFRICA Dates: 28 September to 9 October Venue: Lagos (Nigeria) Application Deadline: 31 August 2026 The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is pleased to announce the call for submission
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
JHEA: Special Issue on Decolonising Knowledge Production in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts
Journal of Higher Education in Africa (Vol. 23 No. 1 ,2025) Guest Editor: Munyaradzi Mushonga Contents Editorial: Decolonising Knowledge Production in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts in Africa Munyaradzi Mushonga
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.
