This edition of the Bulletin is published on the backdrop of celebrations marking the birth of the Council. This year, CODESRIA turned forty-five, a remarkable achievement for an organisation that started in the 1960s as the Council of Directors of Economic and Social Research Institutes in Africa. In 1973, it was formally established as an independent panAfrican research organisation with Samir Amin as first Executive Secretary. February has therefore become a special month for the Council. Read the Full Editorial 

Published: January 15, 2019

CODESRIA Bulletin, No 1, 2018

January 15, 2019
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by Godwin Murunga & Divine Fuh

July 8, 2021
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1 - From the Executive Secretary’s Desk

July 8, 2021
Godwin R. Murunga

2 - Revisiting Trajectories of Epistemological Decolonization in Africa

July 8, 2021
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

3 - How Amos Tutuola Can Inspire: (re)situating and (re) imagining contemporary sociological knowledge within the context of South Africa, Africa and the Global South

July 8, 2021
Francis B. Nyamnjoh

4 - Decolonizing the Academy: The Limits of Race-centric Approaches

July 8, 2021
Tafadzwa Tivaringe

5 - The metamorphosis of the revolutionary intellectual

July 8, 2021
Issa Shivji

6 - Are All African Intellectuals Studying African Studies? An Auto-Critical Response to Issa Shivji’s Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture

July 8, 2021
Chambi Chachage

7 - Africa has no special smell: Towards academic equality in African studies

July 8, 2021
Livio Sansone

8 - Mobility as African Scholars: Debating South African Exceptionalism

July 8, 2021
Ayanda Manqoyi

9 - Access Denied: European Visa Policies and the Dislocation of Dreams

July 8, 2021
Mirjam de Bruijn

10 - Body, Black Aesthetics, Racial Belonging: Identity construction and empowerment among Brazil’s Black youth

July 8, 2021
Bebel NEPOMUCENO

11 - Hilariously Queer: the Transgender and Transsexual Body in Malagasy Culture

July 8, 2021
Zoly Rakotoniera