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
2026 Gender Institute
Theme: Gender and Indigenous Knowledge: Women as Knowledge Bearers 06TH – 11 TH JULY 2026 DAKAR, SENEGAL Director: Prof. Manji, Professor of Law, Cardiff University Resource Person: Dr Paul Awoniyi, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Gender and Social Policy Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University Draft
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
Global Pandemics in the Media: An African Perspective
In Global Pandemics in the Media: An African Perspective, Nkosinothando Mpofu, Phillip Santos, Admire Mare and Hugh Ellis have expertly put together a tour de force collection of African perspectives on the varied ways in which journalists, communicators, citizens, government
African Feminist Theory Articulated and Grounded in Tanzania: A response to Western Patriarchal Neoliberalism
A Response to Western Patriarchal Neoliberalism In African Feminist Theory Articulated and Grounded in Tanzania: A Response to Western Patriarchal Neoliberalism, the intricate ways Tanzanian women have defined and defended their own liberation are meticulously explored. Moving beyond the constraints of Western-centric
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 Mwomboko Dance: A Symbol for Creating Spaces to Break the Silence on Sexuality in Central Kenya
This book, based on a study undertaken at the height of the global HIV and AIDS pandemic in the 1990s, is about the value of community engagement in research. The health interventions of the time focused on individuals, asking them
