Africa in the New Millennium

The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is pleased to announce its 10th General Assembly which is coming up in Kampala, Uganda, from 8 – 12 December, 2002. The Assembly, Africa’s biggest triennial gathering of scholars actively involved in social research, will be held under the broad theme: Africa in the New Millennium. Among the sub-themes around which scientific sessions will be organised are:

 Higher Education in Africa: Crises, Reform, and Transformation;
 Academic Freedom in Africa: The Kampala Declaration Revisited;
 Health, Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa;
 Reforming the African Public Sector: Retrospect and Prospect;
 The Changing Political Economy of Land in Africa;
 Colonialism, Customary Law and Post-Colonial State and Society;
 Africa and the Challenges of Globalisation in Africa;
 Continuity and Change in African International Relations;
 The Popular Arts, Identity and Culture in Contemporary Africa;
 Conflict and Reconstruction in Africa;
 State, Political Identity and Political Violence;
 Political Pluralism and the Management of Diversity;
 Re-thinking (African) Development;
 Africa Beyond Structural Adjustment;
 Migration Dynamics and Changing Rural-Urban Linkages;
 New Regionalist Impulses in Africa;
 The African Diaspora and Diaspora Linkages.

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