CODESRIA 2016 Training of Trainers Workshop

From 26 -30 September 2016, CODESRIA will organize its Training of Trainers Workshop in Dakar, Senegal. This workshop is a platform for experience-sharing among teachers and researchers who are responsible for teaching social science methodology courses in African universities. Several participants from various African regions will take part in the...

Les sciences sociales au Sénégal : Mise à l’épreuve et nouvelles perspectives

Les sciences sociales au Sénégal : Mise à l’épreuve et nouvelles perspectives. Sous la direction de Mamadou Diouf & Souleymane Bachir Diagne. CODESRIA, Dakar, 2016, 284 p., ISBN : 978-2-86978-709-4 La rencontre qui s’organise en ce livre de disciplines et thématiques diverses manifeste le mouvement, aujourd’hui, de la recherche académique en sciences...

3RD TEACHER TRAINING WORKSHOP

HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPORT PROGRAMME Curriculum development and innovative teaching in social & Human Sciences in Senegal" Saly, Senegal, 22 - 26 August 2016 The theme of this third meeting to be held from 22 – 26 August is titled «Emergence (s) and Globalization ". The meeting will bring together about twenty researchers coming from public...

Round Table Discussion: Knowledge Production, Regional Research Organizations and the Bridging of the Local – Global Chasm in Development Cooperation

(Stockholm, 22-24 August) Convener: Ato Onoma, Head of Research, CODESRIA Contact: ato.onoma@codesria.sn Knowledge production stands to play a role in the effort to achieve synergies between local processes and global ones for the attainment of development goals. Many recognize that better knowledge of local processes can help actors at the global...

CODESRIA Holds Summer School

The 2nd edition of the CODESRIA/CASB Summer School in African Studies and Area Studies in Africa will be held from 22 to 26 August 2016 in the premises of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research (CODESRIA). The Summer School sets out to stimulate and consolidate interdisciplinary approaches in research on Africa, but also on other...

Présentation de l’ouvrage du Professeur Ousmane Kane - Beyond Timbuktu : The Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa

Chers Collègues, Vous êtes cordialement invités à la présentation de l’ouvrage du Professeur Ousmane Kane (Harvard University) intitulé Beyond Timbuktu : The Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa (Harvard University Press). A la suite de l’auteur, interviendront le Professeur Boubacar Barry (UCAD), Serigne Mansour Sy Djamil (Assemblée Nationale) et Dr...

2016 Gender Institute: Gender, diseases and public health governance in Africa

It has become increasingly clear among health researchers in various disciplines that being vulnerable to certain diseases or being protected against a disease involves a complex set of relationships that go beyond the disease model of host and agent relationships. More and more research suggests that in the epidemiological triangle, the environment (in...

CODESRIA E-newsletter No. 22: June 2016

Editorial

This 22nd Edition of the CODESRIA Newsletter comes your way with refreshing and interesting news reports and feature articles. 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...

How political interference keeps hurting Africa’s universities By Dr. Ibrahim Oanda

Political interference in Africa’s universities is not new. Universities’ governance was seen as “captured” for narrow political rather than academic ends during the 1980s and 1990s. Politics shaped everything: patterns of student access, curriculum content and teaching methods. Vice-chancellors’ political affiliations mattered far more than their academic...