Forthcoming Book “Aspects of SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS in Botswana”
“This collection is a fascinating account of the state of the protection of socio-economic rights in Botswana which features well established and emerging scholars. Taken together, the chapters present a comprehensive treatment of the subject, exposing the potentials and limitations of the approach to the protection of socio-economic rights taken
JOB VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT SENIOR PROGRAMME OFFICER (RESEARCH)
JOB VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT SENIOR PROGRAMME OFFICER (RESEARCH) Deadline: 31st August 2022 The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) invites applications from African scholars to fill the vacant position of Senior Programme Officer (Research) in its pan-African Secretariat located in Dakar, Senegal. This position falls within the senior staff
A Kind of Farewell to Ato Kwamena Onoma
Godwin R. Murunga Executive Secretary CODESRIA Our colleague, Ato Kwamena Onoma, has served CODESRIA for a period of just under a decade, starting from November 2013 to end of May 2022. He served two full terms as Senior Programme Officer from 2016 to 2022, having previously worked with the Council as Programme
Africa Development Vol. 47 No. 3 (2022) Forthcoming Issue
Special Issue on Agrarian Change, Food Security, Migration and Sustainable Development in Senegal and Zimbabwe Guest Editors: Rama Salla Dieng, Geoffrey Banda & Walter Chambati Contents Introduction: Agrarian Change, Food Security, Migration and Sustainable Development in Senegal and Zimbabwe Rama Salla Dieng, Geoffrey Banda & Walter Chambati
CODESRIA BULLETIN No 1, 2022 IS AVAILABLE!
Over the last two years, political life in West Africa has been disrupted by what some have described as the ‘return of military coups in Africa’. Between 2020 and 2022, military-staged coups took place in Mali, Chad, Niger, Guinea, Sudan and Burkina Faso. To some observers, this was a return
CODESRIA Webinar Series: Higher Education as a Site for Struggle in Africa
CODESRIA invites you to a forthcoming webinar on the recently published text Chasing Freedom. This webinar conceptualizes Higher Education as a Site for Struggle in Africa and is inspired by the numerous stories of heroic struggle in the book Chasing Freedom: Histories, Analyses and Voices of Student Activism in South
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d'Ulm, agrégé and Doctor of Philosophy. After teaching philosophy at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal, and then at Northwestern University in Evanston, he is now Professor at Columbia University in New York, where
Dr. Berit Olsson: A Truly Formidable Woman of Courage and Vision.
The Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA) received of the news of the passing on of Dr Berit Olsson, former Director of SAREC, Sida’s Department for Research Cooperation on Thursday 31st March 2022. We were happy to have been allowed to send a confidential note