| 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
My last note to the CODESRIA Community was in June 2020. Since then, the uncertainty brought about by the Coronavirus pandemic has continued almost unabated. Its implications locally and globally have been immense, affecting even the very experts whose task it is to understand and advice on disease. The world of science has stumbled from one idea to the...
CODESRIA wishes to congratulate Professor Puleng LenkaBula on her appointment as the next Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of South Africa (UNISA). Prof. LenkaBula is an accomplished scholar and current Vice Rector: Institutional Change, Student Affairs and Community Engagement at the University of the Free State in South Africa. She is a...
It is with much sadness that CODESRIA announces the passing on of the eminent Algerian Sociologist, Ali El Kenz. Professor El Kenz was an eminent scholar on the sociology of development and science with a specific focus on Africa and the Arab world. He published extensively on a wide range of subjects including the political economy of Algeria and the...
CODESRIA wishes to announce with much sadness the passing on of the Senegalese scholar and statesman, Prof. Iba Der Thiam. Prof. Thiam was a leading scholar of modern Senegalese history and the author of a large corpus of work on labor history and the history of Senegal. He taught at the Université Cheick Anta Diop (UCAD) for decades, including after his...
The African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA), is a membership-organization of scholars, practitioners, and activists of the African continent and her diaspora (www.as-aa.org). The association’s vision includes, among other things, the promotion of Africa’s own specific contributions to the advancement of the peoples and cultures of Africa and the...
Dear colleagues, The Executive Secretary of CODESRIA, Dr Godwin Murunga has been nominated to Join the Board of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) for a four-year term. His nomination to the UNRISD Board was approved by the Economic and Social Council(ECOSOC) in July 2020. UNRISD is an autonomous research institute...
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...