The Scientific Committee is the organ of CODESRIA that is responsible for the scientific evaluation of CODESRIA programs and contributes to the development of the Council’s scientific agenda. The Committee also contributes to the implementation of programmes and activities of the Council to materialise the strategic plan set by the General Assembly. It is made up of 12 members appointed by the Executive Committee, and ratified by the General Assembly. The Executive Secretary serves as an ex-officio member. The appointment of members of the Committee takes into account gender, generational, sub-regional, and linguistic and disciplinary diversity of the African social science community. The Scientific Committee meets at least once a year. The current members of the Scientific Committee are:
Current Members of the Scientific Committee
Theresa Moyo
Theresa Moyo is the Vice Chair of the Scientific Committee. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Limpopo, South Africa. She holds a BSc Honours and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Zimbabwe and an MA and PhD in Economics from the University of Dalhousie in Canada. She...
Mamadou Diouf
Prof. Mamadou Diouf is the President of the Scientific Committee, an office he assumed in December 2016. Prof. Diouf holds a Ph.D. from the University of Paris-Sorbonne, France. He has held several academic positions, including the Leitner Family Professor of African Studies, Director of...
Manthia Diawara
Manthia Diawara is a Malian writer, filmmaker, cultural theorist, scholar, and art historian. Diawara holds the title of University Professor at New York University, where he is Director of the Institute of Afro-American Affairs. Mantia received his education in France and later travelled to...
Carlos Lopes
Carlos Lopes of Guinea-Bissau holds a PhD in history from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a research master from the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. He received an Honorary PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Cândido Mendes, Rio de...
Alemayehu Geda
Alemayehu Geda completed his PhD in Development Economics at the Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands, in 1998. He has taught at the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. He was also a research fellow at the University of Oxford. He is currently Professor of...
Kmar Bendana
Kmar Bendana is a researcher at the Institute of History of the National Movement (ISHMN), a professor of contemporary history at the University of Manouba (Tunisia) and research associate at the Institute for Research on Contemporary Maghreb. She specializes in the history of culture and...
Cristiano Matsinhe
Cristiano Matsinhe holds a PhD in Human Sciences, with a focus on Social Anthropology, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ - Brazil), and currently works at the Centre for African Studies of Eduardo Mondlane University, where he is the Deputy Director of Research . His...
Emmanuel Akyeampong
Emmanuel Akyeampong is Professor of History and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is the Loeb Harvard College Professor from July 2005 through June 2010. Prof. Akyeampong also the Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies at Harvard University from July 1,...
Aituaje Irene Pogoson
Aituaje Irene POGOSON holds a B.A degree in History, M Sc and Ph.D in Political Science all from the University of Ibadan. She also attended the John F. Kennedy School of Govern-ment at Harvard University and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), New York, USA, Fall Academy for Young...
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja is a professor of African and Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A political scientist by training, he has spent much of his academic career in interdisciplinary studies. Former President of the African Studies Association of the United...
Ammara Bekkouche
Ammara Bekkouche , scholar, architect and urban planner, graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique d’Architecture et Urbanisme d’Alger (EPAU). She taught architecture and urbanism for several years at the University of Science and Technology of Oran (USTO), Algeria. She is currently a Research...
Lyn Ossome
Lyn Ossome is Senior Research Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Kampala. She received her PhD in Political Studies from Wits University in South Africa. She underwent a Postdoctoral training at the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes University (UHURU), South Africa. She...