| 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 |
CODESRIA News
We the representatives of Caribbean Civil Society Organizations meeting at the XIII IDB Civil Society Reunion in Cali Colombia from the 13th -15th of November 2013 stand in solidarity with the many voices that have been calling for a humane and just resolution to the situation facing the descendants of migrants in the Dominican Republic from 1929...
C’est avec consternation que les membres de la CIJS apprennent, ce 18 novembre 2013 de Ouagadougou, la nouvelle d’une nouvelle profanation de la tombe présumée de Thomas Sankara. Thomas SANKARA a été assassiné le 15 Octobre 1987 en compagnie d’une dizaine de ses camarades, vraisemblablement victimes d’un complot international et local. Le certificat de décès...
Historicizing the African Peasantry with Colin Bundy Chambi Chachage Colin Bundy’s (1979) seminal book on The Rise and the Fall of the South African Peasantry, aptly dedicated to the Marxist ANC/SACP leader and author of The Peasant Revolt, Govan Mbeki (1964), is an attempt at a “corrective history” of the South African peasantry. It is a counter to...
Declaration of the African Coalition for Corporate Accountability (ACCA) Launched in Accra, Ghana on 27 November 2013 We, the undersigned organisations, some of which came together in 2012 to create a regional coalition for corporate accountability, announce our intention to launch the African Coalition for Corporate Accountability (ACCA). We, the...
For publication in March 2014, Edited by Patrick Bond and Ana Garcia: We welcome articles about BRICS from a critical perspective. There are many avenues for publishing about the BRICS from an optimistic, uncritical standpoint, not least the BRICS governments’ own academic ‘think tank’ network and the mainstream media. But social movements, labour...
International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS) 20th Annual Conference: Conference theme: Re-thinking African Identity and Culture 20th Annual Conference of the ISAPS International Society for African Philosophy and Studies 30th to 31st May, 2014, Department of Philosophy, in conjunction with the Fort Hare Institute for Social and...
Edited by Ide Corley, Helen Fallon, Laurence Cox. Co-published with Daraja Press. An outstanding and unique collection of letters and poems smuggled from detention before Saro-Wiwa was brutally hanged in 1995. The book has recently been reviewed at http://www.opendemocracy.net/ken-saro-wiwa-biodun-jefiyo/from-silence-would-be-treason-last-writings-of-ken-sar
Edited by Firoze Manji & Bll Fletcher Jr. Co-published with Daraja Press. A unique collection of essays from engaged intellectuals and activists from across the African continent and internationally on the critical importance of Amilcar Cabral, marking the 40th anniversary of Cabral’s assassination in...
par Fatima-Zohra Oufriha Cette somme de réflexions regroupe une série de communications écrites à différentes périodes de 1986 à 2008. Le fil conducteur est constitué essentiellement par la critique culturaliste, puis de façon plus récente, celle de nature environnementale des politiques de développement menées en Algérie et de façon plus large dans le Monde...
Sous la direction de Ndèye Sokhna Guèye La question de l’esclavage et de l’asservissement a été le plus souvent étudiée sous l’angle de la dynamique atlantique. Cette analyse prenait surtout en compte les différences liées à la race, à l’ethnicité, à l’âge, à la classe ou la religion. Toutefois, le rôle et la place des femmes ainsi que les hiérarchies de genre, compris...