| Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa |
| Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique |
| Conselho para o Desenvolvimento da Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais em África |
| مجلس تنمية البحوث الإجتماعية في أفريقيا |
Rosabelle Boswell. ISBN : 2-86978-215-2 ; ISBN 13 : 978-2-86978-215-0 ; 93 pages, 2008 This book is a preliminary discussion of factors challenging the management of intangible cultural heritage in the African communities of Zanzibar, Mauritius and Seychelles. These islands are part of an overlapping cultural and economic zone influenced by a long...
Education and Financing in Africa : The Kenyan Case Study. Aloys B. Ayako, Titus M. Katembu, Juliana W. Nzomo & John K.M. Monyoncho. Dakar, CODESRIA-ADEA, 2006, 96 p., ISBN 2-86978-177-6 The Kenya study, part of a series of case studies by the Education and Finance Working Group, explores ways of reinforcing the capacity and competence of the...
Sandra Manuel. ISBN : 2-86978-191-1 ; ISBN 13 : 978-2-86978-191-7 ; 75 pages, 2008 This monograph analyses the perceptions and practices of sexuality among young people in post- colonial and post-socialist Maputo city. Using a combination of various methods, it compares sexuality in two different generation and describes two diverse kinds of...
The State and the Working People in Tanzania. Issa G. Shivji, ed. Dakar : CODESRIA, 1986. 194 p. (CODESRIA Book Series) ISBN : 0-906968-12-7
An Economic History of Ethiopia. Edited by Shiferaw Bekele. Dakar, CODESRIA, 1995, 344 p., ISBN 9782869780422 When Emporer Haile Selassie led Ethiopia out of Italian occupation, he promised much - liberalisation, land reform, greater prosperity, a modern army, and a modern bureaucracy. Thirty years later, resistance, radical movements and dissent were...
The Potentiality of ‘Developmental States’ in Africa : Botswana and Uganda Compared. Pamela Mbabazi and Ian Taylor. Dakar, CODESRIA, 2005, 188 p., ISBN : 2-86978-164-4 The Potentiality of ‘Developmental States’ in Africa investigates the potential role of the state in Africa in promoting development in this era of globalisation. Using Botswana and Uganda...
Edited by Godwin R. Murunga, and Shadrack W. Nasong’o. Dakar/London, CODESRIA/Zed Books, 2007. , 368 p., ISBN-13 : 978-1842778579 ‘Riveting, compelling, engaging and inspiring. Not only is Kenya : The Struggle for Democracy a book of first-rate schol- arship, it is an informative and readable treatise on the everyday expressions of Kenyan citizens’...
Uganda : Studies in Labour. Mahmood Mamdani. Dakar, CODESRIA, 1996, 392 p., ISBN : 2-86978-059-1 The violent imposition of colonial taxes in Uganda at the turn of the nineteenth century changed village life irrevocably by introducing a cash-based economy. Subsistence farming was superseded by the need to generate income. At the same time, the arrival...
Réseau de recherche comparative (2009)
Mahmood Mamdani. Scholars in the Marketplace. The Dilemmas of Neo-Liberal Reform at Makerere University, 1989-2005. Dakar, CODESRIA, 2007, 316 p., ISBN 9782869782013 Scholars in the Marketplace is a case study of market-based reforms at Uganda’s Makerere University. With the World Bank heralding neoliberal reform at Makerere as the model for the...