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Dans le souci de satisfaire les besoins d’information des chercheurs en sciences sociales et de participer à la vulgarisation de la production scientifique africaine, le Centre de documentation, d’information et de communication du CODESRIA (CODICE) vient de mettre en ligne sa base de données bibliographique. La base de données bibliographique est présentée...
We invite readers to send us their viewpoints on any of the above questions. Send your contributions (of no more than 1500 words) to editor.news@codesria.sn. What will Africa look like in 2063? | CODESRIA is 40 years old. If CODESRIA didn’t exist, would you invent it today? | How has CODESRIA changed you? Have you benefitted from your interaction with...
Ndongo Samba Sylla Africa has always been one of the most profitable regions in the world. It is the region which devotes the highest share of its GDP to income payments to the rest of the world. Between the five decades that span between 1960 and 2009, this share has been rising and has nearly doubled. In the last decade, Africa was transferring as...
Joseph Ki-Zerbo nous a quitté le 4 Décembre 2006. A l’occasion du 7ème anniversaire de son décès, nous nous intéressons à son œuvre léguée pour un véritable développement de l’Afrique, qu’il a présenté comme étant le Berceau et l’Espoir de l’Humanité. Le legs de Joseph Ki-Zerbo contenu notamment dans ses six livres posthumes publiés par la Fondation qui porte son nom : «...
Teaching and Learning in Context: Why Pedagogical Reforms Fail in Sub-Saharan Africa attempts to explain why pedagogical change has not occurred in spite of the much energy and resources that have been committed to such reforms. It takes us inside what the author calls ‘the socio-cultural world of African classrooms’ to help us understand the reasons...
This was the first time that the award, which CLACSO has been giving out for several years now, was given to a non-Latin American or non-Caribbean institution. The full text of the acceptance speech by Ebrima Sall, Executive Secretary of CODESRIA can be found here.
Aijaz Ahmad: Egypt: Revolution or Restoration? In less than three years—January 2011 to August 2013— Egypt has experienced two massive uprisings of historically unprecedented scale. The first of these uprisings broke the impasse that had beset Egyptian politics since the defeat of 1967— especially since the advent of Sadat at the helm of the Egyptian...
Ndongo Samba SYLLA A la fin des années 90, on disait que l’Afrique est marginalisée par la mondialisation. Ce constat s’appuyait sur un déclin supposé de la part du continent africain dans le commerce mondial et dans les flux d’investissements directs étrangers. Au début du XXIe siècle, l’Afrique est paradoxalement présentée comme un continent « émergent »,...
Mahmood Mamdani Where mass violence is involved, writes Mamdani, there is always a choice between the judicial approach, enforced by the victors or by external powers, which tends to exclude the losing parties from any political settlement, and negotiation, which necessarily involves all parties in discussions about the future, whatever the crimes...
ISSUE NUMBER 1 / NUMÉRO 1 DECEMBER 2013 / DÉCEMBRE 2013 The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa Le Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sceinces sociales en Afrique