Journée du CODESRIA

A l’occasion de son 43ème anniversaire, le CODESRIA vous invite le lundi 1er février 2016, à 15H00, au CODESRIA à une table ronde sur le thème Le CODESRIA et la production de connaissances en Afrique. Cette table ronde sera animée par les Professeurs Fatou Sow, Abdou Salam Fall et Abderrahmane Ngaidé et modérée par la Professeure Rokhaya Fall. Vous y êtes...

Une journée de colloque en l’honneur du défunt Prof Sam Moyo (1954-2015)

Pour célébrer la vie et l’œuvre du Professeur Sam Moyo, la session d’été 2016 de l’École agraire Internationale a consacré son premier jour, ce 18 Janvier à un colloque animé par d’éminents spécialistes en études agraires dans le Sud. Parmi les participants à cette rencontre, on retrouve certains des proches collaborateurs de Sam Moyo, ses anciens étudiants...

Bonne et heureuse année

Cher(e)s collègues, Nous vous remercions de votre contribution au travail et à la réussite du CODESRIA en 2015. Meilleurs vœux pour 2016

Lettre d’information du CODESRIA No. 19 : Novembre 2015

Le Professeur Sam Moyo s’en est allé…

Le Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales (CODESRIA) a le regret de vous faire part de la triste nouvelle du décès de son ex-président, le Professeur Sam Moyo. Le Professeur Moyo était à New Delhi où il participait à une conférence sur Labour Questions in the Global South. Le véhicule dans lequel il se trouvait le jeudi 19 novembre...

Sam’s Acceptance Speech he gave when he was elected President of CODESRIA in Younde in December 2008

I would like once more to thank all those represented at the 12th General Assembly of CODESRIA held in Yaounde, for placing the confidence in me by electing me the new President of CODESRIA for the coming three years. Having been involved with CODESRIA over the last 30 years I am extremely honoured to be able to serve CODESRIA in its support to the...

A Tribute to Sam Moyo By Mahmood Mamdani

I no longer recall when exactly I met Sam. Maybe it was in the late 70s at CODESRIA, or in the early 80s at the Zimbabwe Institute of Development Studies. The late 1990s, though, was the time we truly got to work together, closely and intensely. The two of us were at the helm of CODESRIA’s leadership, as President and Vice President. The next two years...

Sam Moyo By Thandika Mkandawire

In my current state of shock I cannot write much by way of an intellectual tribute to Sam Moyo and his rich life. Such an undertaking will have to wait. I met Sam in the late 1970s in Dakar at the IDEP library – IDEP was at the time run by Samir Amin and was a real pan-African intellectual magnate. Sam had an uncle who lived in Dakar so he spent his...

In Memory of Prof Sam Moyo. Message from Dr BE Nzimande, MP, South African Minister of Higher Education and Training

Message from Dr BE Nzimande, MP, South African Minister of Higher Education and Training I would like to express my deepest condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Professor Samson Moyo. His untimely passing was a great shock to me and to other South Africans who knew him. I feel his loss very deeply as he was a friend as well as a...

Sam Moyo By IDEAs Team

23 September 1954- 22 November 2015 In deep sorrow we mourn the sudden and untimely death of Sam Moyo, profound scholar and progressive activist, beloved comrade, Member of the Executive Committee of IDEAs. Sam was in New Delhi, India to participate in a conference on “Labour Questions in the Global South” when a car he was travelling in was involved in...