CODESRIA

Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa/Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique

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NEW @CODESRIA Bulletin Online No. 5 (June 2026)
"Walter Rodney and the Unclaimed Past: Sierra Leone Historiography's Refusal of a Radical Inheritance" by Ibrahim Abdullah revisits Rodney's enduring legacy and its significance for African historiography.
🔗https://t.co/9NFYsGH1tq

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🇯🇵🤝🌍 Strengthening Africa–Japan research collaboration.
@CODESRIA was pleased to welcome @jsps_sns to Dakar to explore new avenues for research partnerships with Dr Yumi Yamane, Director, JSPS Nairobi Research Station, and Dr Manami Hayashi, Postdoctoral Fellow.
#Research

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3/ The article closes with Shivji's account of the violence after Tanzania's Oct. 2025 election, drawing on the Chande Commission and human rights reporting. A sobering reflection on law's limits when the state turns to force. 🔗 https://t.co/5581nD5xnd #CODESRIA #Tanzania

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CODESRIA Bulletin Online No. 4 (June 2026): "When Lawfare Becomes Warfare" by Prof. Issa G. Shivji. Four decades of legal struggle in Tanzania, told through personal stories — from peasant labour cases to defending opposition politicians. A thread 👇

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Shivji distinguishes "insurgent lawfare" (subordinate classes using law's cracks to press grievances) from "warfare" (the state dropping legal pretence for open coercion). He traces this through his own cases: BAWATA, TAZARA workers, Seif Shariff Hamad.

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🌍 New Book!
"Global Pandemics in the Media: An African Perspective" dives into media coverage of global pandemics across Africa.
Explore political narratives, misinformation, and more.
Check it out: https://t.co/7x69xRuqxw
#GlobalPandemics #MediaStudies #COVID19 #AfricanMedia

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"Documents in detail how African feminist thinking works in practice against patriarchy and neoliberal globalization. Madaha's book shows an alternative path." — Signe Arnfred, Roskilde University
🔗 https://t.co/o7vuCBE9P8

#CODESRIA #AfricanFeminism #Tanzania

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Forthcoming from @CODESRIA: "African Feminist Theory Articulated and Grounded in Tanzania" by Rasel Madaha—a feminism built from the ground up, over two decades of action research with Tanzanian communities. A thread 👇

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The book examines how Tanzanian women activists have challenged both patriarchal structures and neoliberal economic policies—not through Western frameworks, but through communal values, historical resistance, and lived experience. A decolonial feminist manifesto.

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A tribute to the life and legacy of Professor Fantu Cheru (1949–2026) has just been published in
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Bulletin Online (No. 3, June 2026). Essential reading to honor his contribution to African studies. 👇https://t.co/oWMOmWF7Qb
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As a longtime Council member, Prof Anyang’ Nyong’o has deeply enriched CODESRIA through his enduring scholarship and vital contributions to African knowledge production.
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@h_anyang today paid a courtesy visit to the @CODESRIA Secretariat, where he toured the Council’s offices and engaged with members of staff.👇

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Reviewers call it "a must-read for anyone working in reproductive and sexual health in Africa." An interdisciplinary model with implications far beyond Kenya.
ISBN: 978-2-38234-107-0
https://t.co/ZK47ONvoJm
#CODESRIA #MwombokoDance #ReproductiveHealth #AfricanResearch #Kenya

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Forthcoming from @CODESRIA: "The Mwomboko Dance" by Beth Maina Ahlberg & Ingela Krantz. A book about community-led research, sexuality, and breaking silence in 1990s Central Kenya. A thread 👇

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At the height of HIV/AIDS, individual-focused interventions weren't working. In Kenya, rising teenage pregnancies contradicted every abstinence message. The authors used Mwomboko — a local dance — to open community dialogue and do research differently.

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@santiag79900880 The results are not yet available.

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📢 Call for Applications: 7th @CODESRIA /@ZASBasel Summer School
🎓 For PhD & early-career scholars
🌍 Rethink African Studies from Africa
👉 Apply now: https://t.co/Z6mK33R5Z8
#CODESRIA #AfricanStudies

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The consequences? Extraversion of research, theoretical poverty, demobilised publics, distorted policy & the deferral of epistemic freedom. The full article: https://t.co/ICI7NQPaTt
#CODESRIA #EpistemicFreedom #Decolonisation

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@CODESRIA Bulletin Online No. 2 (May 2026) is out. Prof. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni's "The Compradorial Intellectual Challenge in Africa" is essential reading. A thread 👇

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He identifies 6 types of comprador intellectualism: the Schizos, the Assimilados, the Akimbos, the Flatterers, the Reactionary Sellouts & Those Who Cry More Than the Bereaved. Each is a diagnosis, not a denunciation.

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Le @CODESRIA a la profonde tristesse d’annoncer le décès du Professeur Fantu Cheru, éminent économiste politique, spécialiste du développement et membre de la communauté du CODESRIA, survenu le 3 juin 2026.
Lire l’hommage: https://t.co/rdQyg7Dhw6
#SciencesSociales #Hommage

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@CODESRIA mourns the passing of Professor Fantu Cheru (3 June 2026), a distinguished political economist, development scholar, and cherished member of our community.

Read the tribute: https://t.co/IwHYyYrk4s

#FantuCheru #CODESRIA #AfricanScholarship #RIP