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MRI 2025- SELECTED PROJECTS

Le Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique (CODESRIA) a le plaisir de vous informer de la publication des résultats de la sélection des projets dans le cadre de son Initiative de Recherche pour la Construction du Sens (MRI) – édition 2025.

Les projets retenus reflètent la richesse et la diversité des approches scientifiques portées par les chercheur·es du continent et de la diaspora autour de thématiques structurantes pour l’Afrique.

Nous félicitons chaleureusement les candidat·es retenu·es et remercions l’ensemble des participant·es et membres des comités de sélection pour leur engagement.

MRI ADVANCED SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

N°	NAME	GENDER	INSTITUTIONAL AFFLIATION	PROJECT TITLE
	Ezebunwa Ethelbert Nwokocha	M	University of Ibadan, Nigeria	Agency, Marginality, and Context: Exploring the Social Construction and Persistence of Twin and Albino Infanticide in the Ecology of Contemporary Nigeria

MRI SPECIAL CALL FOR FEMALE SHOLARS

N°	NAME	GENDER	INSTITUTIONAL AFFLIATION	PROJECT TITLE
1.	Kehinde Oyesomi	F	Covenant University, Nigeria	Online Gender Based Violence and Democratic Governance: Cyberbullying against Women in Politics in Nigeria and South Africa
	Afolayan Georgianna Aluko	F	Covenant University, Nigeria
	Karabo Gloria Mohapanele	F	University of Fort Hare, South Africa
	Gloria Eneh	F	Federal University of Technology Minna, Nigeria
	Noluthando Phungula	F	University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
2.	Josephine Atieno Ochiel	F	Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), Kenya	Exploring Socio-Cultural Factors Influencing Attitudes Towards The Affordable Housing Model In Rural Western Kenya: Implications For Policy, Land Commodification And The White Elephant Syndrome
	Bernadette Sabuni	F	Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), Kenya
	Joyce Alusa Onzere	F	Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), Kenya
	Ummilkheri Abdullahi Ali	F	Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), Kenya
3.	Angèle Flora Mendy	F	Université Gaston Berger Saint Louis, Senegal	Mobilities and Migration of African Nurses and Doctors: perspectives from countries of origin. The cases of Senegal and The Gambia
	Tatiana Mbengue	F	Gaston Berger University, Saint-Louis, Senegal
	Sadio Ba Gning	F	Gaston Berger University, Saint-Louis, Senegal
	Fatmata Bah	F	Gambia School of Nursing and Midwifery
4.	Liberata Mukamana	F	University of Rwanda	Feminist Perspectives on Mineral Extraction: Community Resilience and Ecological Equity
	Alice Mukasekuru	F	University of Rwanda
	Josephine Mutesi	F	University of Rwanda
	Gilbert Shyaka	M	University of Rwanda
5.	Agnes Gisbert Kapinga	F	Tengeru Institute of Community Development, Tanzania	Social Justice And Indigenous Rights: The Case Of Maasai Resettlement From Ngorongoro To Msomera, Tanzania
	Molly Ochuka Achien	F	Bomet University College, Kenya
	Rose Kiwia	F	Tengeru Institute of Community Development, Tanzania
6.	Edith Natukunda Togboa	F	Makerere University, Uganda	Commodification of Culture through Women Voices: A Critical-Semiotic Discourse Analysis of Pioneer Female Artists in East Africa
	Zilpah Ombijah	F	University of Dar-es Salaam, Tanzania
	Everlyn Kisembe	F	Moi University, Kenya
7.	Claudine Hingston	F	School of Business Excellence, MANCOSA, South Africa	A Comparative Study on Homeless Women in Durban, South Africa, and Freetown, Sierra Leone: The Need for Psychosocial Support and Interventions
	Sylnata Johnson	F	University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, South Africa
	Danita Tshakatumba	F	Health Systems Trust, South Africa
	Luthando Ngazile Ngema	F	University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
	Sindisiwe Ngobese	F	University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
8.	Patricia Tchawa Yomi	F	University of Douala, Cameroon	Structural change and women employment: the role of informal sector in Cameroon, Senegal and Togo
	Amy Ka	F	Cheikh Anta Diop University, Sénégal
	Djinta Litaaba-Akila	F	University of Lomé, Togo
9.	Titilope Olusegun Olalere	F	Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Nigeria	Forest Degradation and Protection: The Role of Women in Climate Change in South-Western Nigeria and Ghana, 1900-2006
	Eugenia Ama Breba Anderson	F	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
	Oluwaseun Foluso Phillips	F	Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Nigeria
10.	Marcelle Aholou	F	Université d’Abomey-Calavi (UAC), Benin	Dynamiques de résilience des pratiques alimentaires endogènes face a la domination progressive des systèmes alimentaires étrangers
	Audrey Hemadou	F	Université d’Abomey-Calavi (UAC), Benin
	Isabelle Adjoua Kassa	F	Université d’Abomey-Calavi (UAC), Benin
11.	Saarra Boutahar	F	Université Sultane Moulay, Maroc	Femmes et collecte des déchets : défis, autonomisation et stratégies d’organisation dans un secteur masculinisé
	Fidae El Hassouni	F	Université Ibn Tofail, Maroc
	Nadia Saaidi	F	Laboratoire recherches et Etudes culturelles et sociales (LaRECS), Maroc

MRI GENERAL

N°	NAME	GENDER	INSTITUTIONAL AFFLIATION	PROJECT TITLE
1.	Abeer Abazeed	F	Cairo University, Egypt,	Pastoralism in Egypt’s South Red Sea Region: uncertainty and ecology (dis)equilibrium
	Mosaab El Zayyat	M	Independent researcher and Co-Founder- Research Coordinator Knowledge Sharing, Initiative, Egypt
	Howida Fouda	F	6^th of October University, Egypt
2.	Mutale Tinamou Mazimba	F	University of the Free State, South Africa	A Comparative Analysis of Environmental Management, Resource Extraction and Social Conflict In Malawi, Zambia And Zimbabwe, 1950-2024.
	Mathew Ruguwa	M	University of Zimbabwe
	Mwayi Lusaka	M	Mzuzu University, Malawi
3.	Alain Noindonmon Hien	M	University Lédéa Bernard Ouedraogo, Burkina Faso	Cross-border cultural transformations in West Africa: A comparative study of family naming practices among the Dagara people of Ghana and Burkina Faso.
	Gérard Millogo	M	Université Lédéa Bernard Ouédraogo, Burkina Faso
	Faustina Aapagr Naapane	F	University of Ghana
4.	Temilade Sesan	F	University of Ibadan, Nigeria	Hydro Power, S(hr)inking States? Politics of Renewable Energy, Just Transitions and Urban Transformations in the Lake Chad Region.
	Francis Dakyaga	M	Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Ghana
	Nadege Tedongmo	F	University of Dschang, Cameroon
	Pountougnigni Njuh Ludovic Boris	M	University of Ziguinchor, Senegal
	Tobi Adewunmi	M	University of Illinois, USA
5.	Kais Bouazzi	M	Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain, Belgium) & Tunisian Water Observatory (Tunisia)	Between “World Heritage” and “decoupling”: the role of infrastructure in shaping hydrosocial territories in Djerba
6.	Akoth Steve Ouma	M	Tangaza University, Kenya	Climate Change: Ontologies of Human-Nature relationships amongst the Mijikenda of Kilifi, Coast Region.
7.	Getahun Fenta Kebede	M	Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia	Ethnic-Based Displacements and the Quest for Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons in Ethiopia: A Political Economy Analysis
8.	Florence Munyonyo Asiimwe	F	Kyambogo university, Uganda	The Effects of Transnational Labour Migration on Family Dynamics: An Exploratory Study of African Migrant Domestic Workers and Returnees from the Middle East.
9.	Celso Monjane	M	University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa	Determinants of Economic Diversification in Resource-Rich Countries of Sub-Saharan Africa: A Political Economy Analysis
10.	Kathleen Anangwe	F	University of Nairobi, Kenya	Reparatory Justice: Towards Disengaging Colonial Legacies and Promoting Historical Rectification in Kenya and Uganda.
	Francis Owakah	M	University of Nairobi, Kenya
	George Nyongesa	M	University of Nairobi, Kenya
11.	Chambi Chachage	M	Howard University, USA	Living with and around Lost Cities: Swahili City-States in the Contemporary Imagination.
	Nancy Rushohora	F	University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
	Caeser Bita	M	National Museums of Kenya
	Cecylia Mgombere	F	University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
	Rehema Chachage	F	Academy of Fine Art Vienna, Austria
12.	Augustin Pale	M	Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Burkina Faso	Impacts sociaux et économiques des aires protégées en Afrique de l’Ouest : étude comparée entre le Burkina Faso et la Côte d’Ivoire
	Didié Armand Zadou Zidy	M	Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé de Daloa, Côte d’Ivoire
	Kouassi Bruno Kpangui	M	Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé de Daloa, Côte d’Ivoire
	Alexis Kabore	M	Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Burkina Faso
13.	Sidy Ndour	M	Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal	Expansion atlantique et transformations des espaces sociaux, symboliques, culturels et économiques des royaumes historiques du Baol et du Cayor, XVe-XXe siècle : approche pluridisciplinaire.
14.	Hassane Mahamat Hemchi	M	Ecole Africaine aux Métiers de l’Architecture et de l’Urbanisme (EAMAU), Togo	Réactiver les communs urbains : expérimentations urbaines et architecturales a Lome (Togo)
	Guy-Hermann Mawussé Padenou	M	Ecole Africaine aux Métiers de l’Architecture et de l’Urbanisme (EAMAU), Togo
	Monica Coralli	F	Ecole Africaine aux Métiers de l’Architecture et de l’Urbanisme (EAMAU), Togo
	Léopold Carios Goutsop	M	Ecole Africaine aux Métiers de l’Architecture et de l’Urbanisme (EAMAU), Togo
	Abdou Kailou Djibo	M	Ecole Africaine aux Métiers de l’Architecture et de l’Urbanisme (EAMAU), Togo
15.	Jean Liyongo Empengele	M	Université de Kinshasa, RDC	Destin des Archives et crise de la culture stratégique au Congo-Kinshasa
16.	Fabrice Vidaley Tekou	M	LADICom Laboratory of the University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin	Dynamiques De Resistance A La Formalisation Des Droits Fonciers Dans L’espace Soudano-Sahélien : Enjeux Et Implications Pour La Gouvernance Des Ressources Partagées
	Bala Wenceslas Sanou	M	Impact Research Institute, Burkina-Faso
	Marthe Diarra	F	Institute for Research in Human Sciences (IRSH) of Abdou Moumouni Uni-versity, Niger
17.	Gilson Lázaro	M	Universidade Agostinho Neto, Angola	Descentralização, autarquias locais e participação cidadã. Estudo de caso em três países africanos lusófonos: Angola, Cabo Verde e Moçambique.
	Laura Nhaueleque	F	Instituto Superior Dom Bosco, Mozambique
	Luca Bussotti	M	Universidade Técnica de Moçambique
18.	Banjaqui Nhaga	M	Instituto Guineense de Pesquisa Aplicada Para O Desenvolvimento (IGPAD), Guinea Bissau	Estudo de caso sobre a Migração Internacional dos jovens guineenses: Fatores motivacionais e as principais implicações.
	Boaventura Rodrigues Vaz Horta Santy	M	Instituto Guineense de Pesquisa Aplicada Para O Desenvolvimento (IGPAD), Guinea Bissau
	Jamila Lemuela do Nascimento Nhaga Bathy	F	Instituto Guineense de Pesquisa Aplicada Para O Desenvolvimento (IGPAD), Guinea Bissau
	Vanito Ianium Vieira Cá	M	Instituto Guineense de Pesquisa Aplicada Para O Desenvolvimento (IGPAD), Guinea Bissau
	Sueli Helena Rocha Lopes Santy	F	Instituto Guineense de Pesquisa Aplicada Para O Desenvolvimento (IGPAD), Guinea Bissau

Bulletin en ligne du CODESRIA, No. 7, Juillet 2025

SAFEGUARDING ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN AFRICA: THE 2025 DAR ES SALAAM ANNEX TO THE 1990 KAMPALA DECLARATION

Edward Mboyonga, University of the Free State, South Africa

The article was originally published as an opinion piece for African Arguments.

https://africanarguments.org/2025/06/safeguarding-academic-freedom-the-dar-es-salaam-annex-to-the-kampala-declaration/

Around the world, academic freedom in universities is increasingly under threat from the rise of populist regimes, repressive governments and heightened polarisation based on race, religion and other political divides. In China, for example, Pringle and Woodman (2022) have described the state of academic freedom in universities as being caught between a rock and a hard place, owing to increasingly repressive policies and the constant involvement of the government in the internal affairs of universities. In India, there has been a decline in freedom of academic and cultural expression in public universities, which has been exacerbated by the Hindu nationalist, Narendra Modi’s election as prime minister since 2014 (Kinzelbach et al. 2023). This has mainly been the case with universities located in minority Muslim states. Recently, the conflict in Gaza has underscored the fragile state of academic freedom in universities in the global North. In the United Kingdom (UK), Germany and the United States (US), some universities, academics and students have faced punitive repercussions for voicing their opposition to the ongoing atrocities in the world but especially in the so-called middle East. In Germany, such threats have led to a significant decline in the country’s position on the 2025 Academic Freedom Index, causing it to fall outside the top 10 per cent. Similarly, recent protests at numerous campuses in the US, along with the subsequent revocation of visas and related rights, based on allegations of antisemitic behaviour, have led to the withdrawal of state funding from major universities, including Harvard. These developments indicate a higher education environment that is increasingly characterised by threats of federal research grants being frozen, loss of tax-exempt status, control over curriculum, and self-censorship, in a nation once regarded as a shining example of democracy. Read the full Text …

Bulletin du CODESRIA, No 2, 2025

NÚMERO ESPECIAL MOÇAMBIQUE – Visão de alguns intelectuais moçambicanos sobre a violência pós-eleitoral

Dans ce numéro

Editorial

Godwin R. Murunga & Patrícia Godinho Gomes …………………………………………………. 3

Editorial

Godwin R. Murunga & Patrícia Godinho Gomes ………………………………………………… 6

Éditorial

Godwin R. Murunga & Patrícia Godinho Gomes ……………………………………………….. 9

1. O “dever de violência”, ou a constituição de espaços de exercício de cidadania?

Elísio Macamo………………………………………………………………………..13

2. Para Além do Voto: Entendendo as razões do fracasso do diálogo pós-eleitoral em Moçambique

Egna Sidumo ………………………………………………………………………..15

3. Um país adiado

Rui Miguel Lamarques…………………………………………………………..19

4. A imprensa moçambicana na trajectória de eleições de alto risco

Tomás Vieira Mário………………………………………………………………21

5. Contraditório e Tutela Jurisdicional Efectiva no Processo de Proclamação e Validação dos Resultados Eleitorais

Tomás Timbane …………………………………………………………………..25

6. Mpesa Não É Um Trabalho: A Desigualdade, o Desemprego e a Política de um Levantamento Popular

Ruth Keila Castel-Branco……………………………………………………..27

7. As Redes Sociais nas Manifestações de Maputo: Uma Análise da Etnografia Digital

Dilman Michaque Gabriel Mutisse ………………………………………29

8. Navegando a efervescência política e intelectual pós-eleitoral em Moçambique: A experiência de uma antropóloga feminista

Katia Taela………………………………………………………………………..35

9. Em meio à crise e incertezas em Moçambique: o que vem a seguir?

Egídio Chaimite……………………………………………………………….43

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Bulletin en ligne du CODESRIA, No 6, Mai 2024

Indigenous African Knowledge and the Challenge of Epistemic Translation

Zubairu Wai, University of Toronto, Canada

Keynote Address: African Fellowships for Research in Indigenous and Alternative Knowledges (AFRIAK), Conference organised by CODESRIA, King Fahd Palace Hotel – Dakar, Senegal, 25–27 November 2024

Allow me to start by recalling an encounter at another CODESRIA meeting in Dakar, in January 2013. In collaboration with Point Sud (Centre for Research on Local Knowledge), based in Bamako, Mali, CODESRIA had co-organised a conference, ‘Africa N‘ko: Debating the Colonial Library’. The conference had brought together some of Africa’s finest intellectuals to consider the implications of what Congolese philosopher V.Y. Mudimbe designated a ‘colonial library’ on knowledge production and gnostic practices on and about Africa, as well as imagine the continent beyond the epistemic regions, structuring violence and contaminating vectors of this library.
Coinciding with the conference was Operation Serval, a French military intervention in Mali ostensibly to oust Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists who had seized control of the north of Mali and were pushing into the centre of the country. Like every other ‘savage war for peace’, Operation Serval was justified in the name of a higher ethical purpose: namely, to prevent the Malian state from collapse and rescue it from the savagery of Islamists harkening to irrational and premodern beliefs. Among those attending the conference, however, the concerns were especially over the protection of historical and cultural artefacts – specifically, the manuscripts and knowledge troves of medieval West Africa housed in a library in Timbuktu, central Mali.
Indeed, Timbuktu had, under the kings of Mali and Songhai, flourished not only as an important trading post on the trans-Saharan caravan routes but also as a thriving commercial, cultural, and especially, educational centre in medieval West Africa. The Sankoré Mosque/University, for example, attracted many famous scholars from the Islamic world from as far as Andalusia, Egypt and Syria. And this, in addition to a thriving book trade, established the city as a renowned scholarly centre in the medieval and early modern world. Under the rule of Askia Muhammad the Great of Songhai (1493–1528), for example, the Sankoré University reached its apogee. Its archives are a significant historical and cultural monument and remain one of the most important sources for the reconstruction of West African history. And only a fraction of these invaluable documents has been translated and decoded. Obviously, the need to preserve and protect this archive is beyond debate, and in the context of a conference on the colonial library and its implications for knowledge cultivation practices in Africa, the concerns over the protection of the library of Timbuktu, which forms part of the Indigenous African archives, were well founded and justified. Read the full Text …