Honorary Doctor of Laws degree for Prof. Thandika Mkandawire

The University of York, Canada will confer upon Prof. Thandika Mkandawire, former Executive Secretary of CODESRIA and Professor at London School of Economics, an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree on October 14th 2018. The honour will be in recognition of Prof. Mkandawire’s excellent record in scholarship and research in the area of development studies. The...

SAMIR AMIN (1931-2018): A TITAN HAS GONE HOME TO REST

The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) wishes officially to inform members of the African intellectual community of the passing on of Professor Samir Amin on Sunday, 12th August 2018. For CODESRIA, this marks nothing less than the end of an era in the history of African social research given the many pioneering...

CODESRIA Bulletin

CODESRIA Bulletin has historically been the front for engaging intellectual debates for the Council. First published in the mid-1970s, the Bulletin gained a reputation for its provocative, critically engaging and informative debates, making it one of the most priced assets of the Council. Following a recent review of the Council’s intellectual agenda and...

Mrs Samia Nkrumah leads important delegation to visit CODERIA

Several CODESRIA staff, led by the Executive Secretary, Dr Godwin Murunga received Ms. Samia Nkrumah, a pan-Africanist activist and politician and daughter of Kwame Nkrumah. Ms. Nkrumah is currently in Dakar to meet Senegalese authorities and pan-African institutions such as CODESRIA. The series of meeting she is involved in are a prelude to the...

CODESRIA Meeting with South African Envoy to Senegal

CODESRIA Conference Room Dakar Senegal February 07 2018 Several CODESRIA staff, led by the Executive Secretary, received the Ambassador of South Africa to Senegal and the People’s Republic of the Gambia, His Excellency Lenin Shope. Mr. Shope led a team of officers from the Embassy in the visit to the Council Office in Dakar. The visit, which was the...

CODESRIA E-newsletter No. 25: August 2017

Social networking, identity and sexual behaviour of undergraduate students in Nigerian universities

Williams Ezinwa Nwagwu Africa Regional Center for Information Science, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria and Department of Information Studies, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa Purpose – The purpose of this study was to examine how the identity of undergraduates who use social networking sites in selected Nigerian universities in...

2017 Governance Institute

From 4 to 15 September 2017, CODESRIA will hold its Annual Governance Institute This year’s theme is "Economic Governance and Economic Transformation of Africa". For this edition, the institute will be led by Prof. Horace Campbell and will have professors Abdou Salam Fall and Vusi Gumede as resource...

Ebrima Sall, secrétaire exécutif sortant du Codesria : « Le Codesria a su s’ajuster, s’adapter et anticiper »

Le Dr Ebrima Sall vient de terminer son deuxième et dernier mandat à la tête du Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique (Codesria), plébiscité premier think tank africain en 2016. Chercheur discret, mais réputé dans les milieux universitaires, le Dr Sall est un ancien de l’institution, car il y a passé une bonne partie de sa...

CODESRIA has a new Executive Secretary, Dr Godwin Murunga

Dr Murunga is a historian and political analyst of Kenyan origin. Prior to joining CODESRIA as the Executive Secretary, he was lecturing at the Institute of Development Studies of the University of Nairobi. He was the immediate past director of the Africa Leadership Centre in Nairobi, and was a member of the Executive Committee of CODESRIA for two...