Quo Vadis Africa? South Africa, Afrophobia and the Betrayal of Liberation Memory
Bulletin en ligne du CODESRIA, 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
The Migrant and the Citizen: We Need New Forms of Political Community
Bulletin en ligne du CODESRIA, No. 7, Juillet 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
South Africa’s Xenophobia: Can Thabo Mbeki Change the Narrative?
Bulletin en ligne du CODESRIA, No. 6, Juillet 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
Walter Rodney and the Unclaimed Past: Sierra Leone Historiography’s Refusal of a Radical Inheritance
Bulletin en ligne du CODESRIA, 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
When Lawfare Becomes Warfare: Personal Stories, Political Landscapes
Bulletin en ligne du CODESRIA, 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,
Fantu Cheru: An Obituary (1949 –2026)
Bulletin en ligne du CODESRIA, No. 3, Juin 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
The Compradorial Intellectual Challenge in Africa
Bulletin en ligne du CODESRIA, No. 2, Mai 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:
Generative AI in Global Scientific Knowledge Production: Challenges and Prospects for Africa
Bulletin en ligne du CODESRIA, No. 1, Mars 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
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
Rapport de sélection des candidatures de l’Initiatives de recherche pour la construction du sens (MRI) 2025 du CODESRIA
Lancée en juillet 2017, l’Initiative de recherche pour la construction du sens (MRI) est le principal outil du Conseil dans la promotion de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales. En novembre 2024, la quatrième édition du programme MRI a