To Commemorate the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda : CODESRIA calls for an end to Racial Discrimination in Africa

To commemorate the International Day of Reflection on the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, the United Nations Information Center (UNIC) and the Regional Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in partnership with the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the Embassy of Rwanda in Dakar,...

Vacancy Announcement : CODESRIA Executive Secretary

The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) invites applications from suitably qualified senior African scholars for the position of Executive Secretary in its pan-African Secretariat located in Dakar, Senegal. This position, which will fall vacant in 2017, is the most senior management post in the Executive...

Round Table on the Theme Youth, Democracy and Security

On the occasion of the 86th meeting of its Executive Committee, CODESRIA organized a round table on the theme Youth, Democracy and Security with Professors Nkolo Foe (Vice President of CODESRIA) Slehedine Ben Frej (University of Tunis), Bakary Sambe (Gaston Berger University of St. Louis). The roundtable, which was held on Thursday, 26 May 2016 in the...

Professor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong: New Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies effective July 1, 2016

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong as the new Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies effective July 1, 2016. Akyeampong, Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, is the senior historian of Africa at Harvard, and specializes in West...

Débat sur le thème: Jeunes, démocratie et sécurité

Jeudi 26 mai 2016, 14H30, au CODESRIA A l’occasion de la 86ème réunion de son Comité Exécutif, le CODESRIA organise une table ronde sur le thème Jeunes, démocratie et sécurité avec les Professeurs Nkolo Foé (Université de Yaoundé I), Slehedine Ben Frej (Université de Tunis), Bakary Samb (Université de Saint-Louis). La table ronde aura lieu le jeudi 26 mai 2016 à...

CODESRIA E-newsletter No. 21: April 2016

Editorial

Welcome to CODESRIA Newsletter Issue Number 21. The Colloquium on Thinking African, organized in recognition of the contribution of Thandika Mkandawire to the development of CODESRIA and to the advancement of knowledge production in Africa and around the world and the International Conference on Academic Freedom were two successful events. They took...

Prof Samir Amin 43 Après, Nous sommes Fiers du CODESRIA

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Africa must learn higher education lessons from India By Wachira Kigotho

Wachira Kigotho08 April 2016 Issue No:408 Africa’s tertiary education and research sector is not ready for global competitiveness and innovation as only 4% of new innovations on the continent are based on research and development, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa or ECA, the African Union and the African Development Bank....

La violence anticoloniale était libératrice. La violence terroriste veut détruire la démocratie By Achille Mbembe

La sécurité et les libertés sont-elles compatibles ? Face aux attentats, la guerre est-elle la solution ? Le modèle occidental est-il adapté à l’Afrique ? Alors que son prochain ouvrage paraît le 31 mars, l’intellectuel camerounais s’est plié à nos questions et nous livre ses réponses. Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Nigeria, Cameroun, Tchad, Niger, Tunisie, France,...