Launch of the 2014 Global Go-To Think Tank Index Report

Theme: The Role of Think Tanks in an Evolving Africa Time: 10:00-11:30; Venue: CODESRIA, Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop X Canal IV, Dakar Report on the CODESRIA Panel Discussion to Launch the 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Index In line with the agreement by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa’s (CODESRIA) agreement to...

Conference Report : Youth, Social Movements and Social Networks in Africa

Tunisia – Tunis, 4-5 August, 2014 ABSTRACT In partnership with the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Tunis, CODESRIA held on 4 and 5 August, 2014 in Tunis an international conference on the theme: Youth, social movements and social networks in Africa. This conference brought together researchers, scholars and people from civil society...

New Year Greetings from CODESRIA / Le CODESRIA vous présente ses meilleurs voeux

CODESRIA E-newsletter No. 10: December 2014

La célébration de la journée de solidarité avec la Palestine

En partenariat avec le Centre d’Information des Nations Unies (CINU) et l’ambassade de la Palestine à Dakar, le CODESRIA a participé à la célébration de la journée de solidarité avec la Palestine le 4 décembre 2014. La table ronde organisée dans le cadre de cet événement, a été présidée par Prof. Aminata Diaw Cissé, Administrateur principal du programme Formation,...

Informative review: The Meanings of Timbuktu

Authors : Shamil Jeppie et Souleymane Bachir Diagne, (dir.) Reviewer : Pape Chérif Bertrand Bassène, Ph.D. Descriptive dictionary on Timbuktu and the history of sudani erudition “The Meanings of Timbuktu", is a collective work published in 2008 and translated from English by Ousmane Kane. This contribution to the African intellectual history was...

The Ebola crisis and its implications on capacity development in Africa

The African Capacity Building Foundation joined top African business leaders at a roundtable to establish an emergency fund to help countries hit by the Ebola outbreak in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on November 8, 2014. The meeting held at the African Union Conference Centre brought together the African Union, the African Development Bank, the United Nations...

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela as an Embodiment of Paradigm of Peace By Prof. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

It is now a year since Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela passed on. Mandela passed on at a time when South Africa was celebrating 20 years of democracy and Africa was has travelled 60 year of decolonization. Mandela’s gift to the world has been the paradigm of peace as a constitutive element of the broader anti-colonial/decolonial humanism underpinned by ubuntu....

Editorial

The year 2014 has been an eventful but successful year for us in CODESRIA. We look towards the year 2015 with great optimism for our continent, especially with regard to the progress of democracy and the search for solutions to challenges such as those posed by the Ebola Virus Disease. Pour le CODESRIA, l’année 2014 a été une année mouvementée mais...

Olivier Sagna, "Personnalité TIC de l’année 2014"

Nous félicitons Olivier Sagna, qui fut Administrateur du programme CODICE et qui a été élu "Personnalité TIC 2014" à l’occasion de l’édition 2014 des ‪#‎Jambartechawards. Voici son message de remerciement : « A travers ce message, je tiens à remercier tous ceux et toutes celles, parents, amis, collègues, anciens étudiants et étudiants ainsi que tous ceux et toutes...