XIIIth CODESRIA General Assembly

Fiftieth Anniversary of the Casablanca Conference (1961 )

The 13th CODESRIA General Assembly takes place shortly after many African countries have celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their independence. It is also being organised, 50 years after the holding of the 1961 Casablanca Conference that brought together Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana), Mwalimu Julius Nyerere (Tanzania), Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt), Ahmed Sekou Toure (Guinea), Modibo Keita (Mali), Ferhat Abbas (Algeria) and other leaders of newly independent African states and national liberation (...)

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Leopold Sedar Senghor Public Lecture

Léopold Sédar Senghor was born on the 9 Octobre 1906 on the coast not far from the city of Dakar. He was the son of Gnylane Bakhoum and Basile Diogoye Senghor, his father being a well-to-do trader and a dignitary within the Christian community of his village in Joal. He studied at the Catholic mission school of Ngasobil,, Libermann high school as well as at Dakar Secondary School. He then carried on at Lycée Louis le Grand de Paris, France, where he met Aimé Césaire, and finally went on to (...)

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Miriam Makeba Public Lecture

Born on 4 March 1932 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Miriam Makeba’s real first name was “ Zenzi ” which is a shorter name for “ Uzenzile ”, meaning “You can only be mad at yourself”. She lost her father at the age of 5 and lived a very difficult childhood. She had to drop out of high-school and work in order to help her mother. As a child, she started singing with her school choir and won a prize at a music contest organized by a missionary school. She was then 13 years old. She took on the stage (...)

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Claude Ake Public Lecture

Claude Eleme Ake, from Nigeria, obtained a PhD from Columbia University in 1966. After his studies, Ake worked as assistant professor at Columbia University. In 1967, he published his first book, A Theory of Political Integration, and in 1969, he took up a position as professor of political science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. From 1972 to 1974, Ake was a visiting professor at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. In the mid-1970s, Ake returned to Nigeria to take up an (...)

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Cheikh Anta Diop Public Lecture

Cheikh Anta Diop was born on 29th of December 1923 at Caytou, a small village of Baol (Diourbel) in the heart of Senegal. Like other children of his community, he started his education at the Quranic school, and later attended the French School of Diourbel for his primary education before proceeding to Dakar and Saint Louis for his secondary education.. After his Baccalaureate in 1945, he left for France. The context in which he had grown up in Senegal gave him a deep understanding of the (...)

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Conference of Deans of Faculties of Social Sciences and Humanities

The Place of the African University in the Emerging Global Higher Education Space The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is pleased to announce the fourth session of its initiative designed to bring together the deans of faculties of social sciences and humanities of universities in Africa. As part of its strategy to support the African university, CODESRIA has created this forum which it desires should occur regularly, as it enables the managers of (...)

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Annual Conference of Editors of CODESRIA Journals

In order to develop a mutually supportive network of editors and better co-ordinate CODESRIA’s various publications, the Publications Programme organises an Annual Conference of Editors of CODESRIA Journals, at which each journal is represented by its Editor-in-Chief and one other participant selected from among the editors. Each year, the conference revolves around a selected theme considered important to journal publication. This year, the conference will focus on the theme: “Is (...)

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The NWGs and CRNs Coordinators’ Meeting

CODESRIA’s Research Program is organizing a methodology workshop in conjunction with the 13th General Assembly , which will be held in Rabat, Morocco from 05-09 December 2011. The workshop will bring together participants from ten (10) research networks, namely, National Working Groups (NWGs) and Comparative Research Networks (CRNs), that are selected in 2011 In total, about twenty researchers and resource persons will take part in the workshop. This workshop aims at discussing the (...)

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Exhibition

The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is pleased to invite you to reserve a stand to exhibit and promote your publications during its forthcoming 13th General Assembly to be held from 5th to 9th December 2011 in Rabat, Morocco. The General Assembly will be a rallying point of over 500 researchers from the African continent and the Diaspora. Exhibitors are being expected from all over the world, institutional partners of the Council, commercial (...)

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