| 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 |
In March, the Council shared with the CODESRIA community a quarterly update from the Secretariat. That update came a few days before the lockdown following the rapid spread of COVID-19 virus. The Council subsequently issued a COVID-19 specific update outlining measures that remain in force and will continue to be until we have clarity from the...
The World Health Organization this week designated the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. While numbers from China where it started seem to indicate that it is getting better there, infections have exploded in other areas of the world and many African countries are registering cases. CODESRIA has being tracking the outbreak and assessing its potential...
Sharon Dell Traditional understandings of the African academic diaspora in terms of loss or ‘brain drain’ do not sit well with Patrício Langa, a sociologist and associate professor of higher education who straddles two academic portfolios in two African countries – one at the Institute for Post-School Studies (IPSS) of the University of the Western Cape,...
Sharon Dell Professor Joseph Mensah, a Ghanaian-born scholar currently at York University in Toronto, Canada, has played a leading role in a number of African academic diasporan programmes aimed at tapping into the expertise of African academics living and working around the world. He speaks to University World News – Africa about the “mammoth...
Dakar, Senegal 2019 As the year 2019 comes to an end, the Council will remain closed from 20th December 2019. Staff will be on holidays until 6th January 2020. On behalf of the Executive Committee and of the all staff, I wish to thank the CODESRIA community for the engagement during the year. We appreciated feedback on programmes, took note of and,...
Date: December 2-4, 2019 Venue: Kigali, Rwanda CODESRIA in collaboration with the Center for Conflict Management of the University of Rwanda is organizing a Methodology and Scholarly Writing Workshop for its 2019 Joint Africa-Diaspora Meaning-making Research Initiatives (MRI) cohort. The workshop is being held in Kigali, Rwanda and has brought...
Date: November 28-30, 2019 Venue: Kigali, Rwanda On November 28-30, 2019, CODERIA in collaboration with the Center for Conflict Management of the University of Rwanda organized a Publications and Dissemination Workshop for the 2017 cohort of its Meaning-making Research Initiatives (MRI). The workshop was held in...
Supervisors of doctoral students who saw their students as ’competitors’ offered insufficient support, failed to facilitate the relevant training and were partly to blame for delays in the completion of doctoral programmes and high student drop-out rates, a recent seminar for doctoral mentees heard. According to Chacha Nyaigotti-Chacha, chairman of...
Prof. Olukoshi is the Regional Director for Africa and West Asia at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) based in Addis Ababa Ethiopia and also former Executive Secretary of CODESRIA. He has vast experience leading institutions engaged in various intellectual and policy work. He is widely published on a range of...
Dr. Marema Toure Thiam is Senegalese, a sociologist by training and works as the Chief of the Social and Human Sciences Sector (SHS) at the West Africa Office of UNESCO. She has had a long association with the scientific activities of the Council and her intellectual work has focused on gender as her field of interest. She is also widely published on a...