Global Pandemics in the Media: An African Perspective
This ground-breaking book, which focuses on three global pandemics—HIV and AIDS, Ebola, and COVID-19—examines a broad spectrum of pandemic reporting and communication dynamics from an African perspective. […].
— Prof. Sarah Chiumbu, Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
[…]. This edited book volume uniquely underscores the importance of centring African perspectives on the mediation of global pandemics within the decolonial turn debate. It is one of few books to critically interrogate the mediation of the global pandemic
from a journalism, communication, and media studies perspective in Africa, […].
— Dr. Jacinta Maweu, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya
In Global Pandemics in the Media: An African Perspective, […]. The editors have generated an intellectually stimulating and ‘time-defying’ resource that centres African experiences in mainstream public health communication discourses, which are heavily dominated and crowded by Western scholarship.
— Dr. Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, School of Social and Political Sciences,
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Re-envisioning the African and American Academies
This book is a true masterpiece from one of the preeminent minds in higher education today. […]
By looking across Africa and the United States in the periods before and after Covid, […].
— Ben Vinson III, President, Howard University, Washington DC, USA
In Re-envisioning the African and American Academies, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza presents a thought-provoking analysis of the state of higher education in African and American institutions, with the Covid-19 pandemic as an inflection point. […].
— Tshilidzi Marwala, Rector, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan
Re-envisioning the African and American Academies is a seminal book for researchers, practitioners, leaders and students in wanting to interrogate and understand the state of higher education in Africa and the United States in a post-Covid world. […].
— Fanta Aw, PhD, CEO and Executive Director, NAFSA
[…], Zeleza undertakes a stringent critique of the neoliberal university and proposes concrete recommendations on how to reform and restructure the contemporary university in the world. Superb! A must-read.
— Adam Habib, Director, SOAS, University of London, England
From an academic’s and a practitioner’s perspective, Paul Zeleza intricately examines the trajectories of the development of higher education systems on two continents, with universal applicability. […].
— Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, Vice Chancellor, University of Ghana
[…]. Zeleza provides us a courageous roadmap to re-envision the African and American academies[…].
— Catherine Koverola, Director, Center for African Studies, USA
Intellectuels, nationalisme et idéal Panafricain
Intellectuels, nationalisme et idéal panafricain – Perspective historique
” Rassembler dans un ouvrage cohérent les actes d’un colloque est souvent un véritable défi. Thierno Bah a réussi áa relever ce défi de façon crédible. La perspective historique qui constitue le fil d’Ariane des textes choisis aidera súrement le lecteur áa appréhender la crise multidimensionnelle de l’afrique dáujourd’hui par l’éclairage de son passé et áa apprécier la pertinence des solutions suggérées. Nul doute que tous ceux que le destin de notre continent ne laisse pas indifférents trouveront l’ouvrage fort utile ”.
Elisée Soumonni, Historien, Cotonou (Bénin), pr;ec;edemment Professeur á l’Université Nationale du Bénin, Abomey-Calavi
” Cette riche collection éditée par Thierno Bah montre á quel point une perspective historique peut aider á comprendre les dilemmes des intellectuels africains celui entre liberté de pensée et responsablilité morale; et, plus spécifiquement, celui entre nationalisme et panafricanisme. Une question capitale revient partout dans le livre: dans quelle mesure le panafricanisme historique pourrait-il aider á surmonter la crise tenace de l’Etat-nation sur le continent ” ?
Professeur Peter Geschiere, Université d’Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
Diversité et essence des arts panafricains / Diversity and the Essence of Pan-African Arts
Diversité et essence des ARTS PANAFRICAINS / Diversity and the essence of Pan-African Arts
Les arts, la production artistique et littéraire en Afrique sont des échos du patrimoine culturel africain dans ses diversités, son essence, ses valeurs, ses réalités et ses contradictions. Ces résonances se traduisent de différentes manières d’une période à l’autre et d’une culture à l’autre. Elles propagent l’image authentique que l’Afrique se fait d’elle-même dans ses enthousiasmes, ses souffrances, ses malaises, ses défi s et sa résilience pour se dépasser, vivre le présent et imaginer son avenir. L’ensemble des chapitres de ce livre a été présenté pour la première fois dans le cadre de l’Institut sur les sciences humaines du CODESRIA qui s’est tenu en marge du Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision, le Fespaco, à Ouagadougou, au Burkina Faso, en 2019. L’institut a réuni des chercheurs et des artistes africains pour réfléchir aux possibilités et aux implications de la (re)constitution de la mémoire et de l’histoire des arts (pan)africains dans le cadre d’un processus de problématisation des attitudes envers le passé et l’avenir.
Bouchra Sidi-Hida est docteure en sciences sociales de l’Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgique. Elle a été chercheure séniore au CERSS au Maroc et est actuellement Administrateur de programme au CODESRIA. Sidi-Hida est chercheure associée à plusieurs centres de recherche dont le LPED de l’Université Aix Marseille, France. Elle est auteure de plusieurs articles et ouvrages et membre de plusieurs réseaux de recherche internationaux tel LMI Movida sur la migration.
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The Arts, artistic, and literary production in Africa are echoes of Africa’s cultural heritage in its diversities, essence, values, realities, and contradictions, being transmitted across generations. These resonances are translated in different ways from one period to another and from one culture to the other. They propagate the authentic image that Africa has of itself in its enthusiasms, its sufferings, its discomforts, its challenges, and its resilience to surpass itself, live the present, and imagine its future. The collection of chapters in this book was first presented as part of the CODESRIA Humanities Institute that took place on the sidelines of the bi-annual Pan-Africa Film and Television Festival, Fespaco, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 2019. The institute convened African researchers and artists to reflect on the possibilities and implications of (re)making the memory and history of the (Pan)African arts, as part of a process of problematizing attitudes toward the past and the future.
Bouchra Sidi-Hida holds a Ph.D. in social sciences from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium. She has been a senior researcher at CERSS in Morocco and is currently Programme Officer at CODESRIA. Sidi-Hida is an associate researcher with several research centres including the LPED of the University of Aix Marseille, France. She is the author of several articles and books and a member of several international research networks such as LMI Movida on migration.
Beyond Disciplines: African Perspectives on Theory and Method
Beyond Disciplines: African Perspectives on Theory and Method
To what extent can we go beyond disciplinary boundaries to produce knowledge on Africa that has emancipatory and transformational power? Beyond Disciplines: African Perspectives on Theory and Method, attempts to address this question. Among the critical issues covered by contributors to the book include the limitations of Eurocentric approaches on illuminating and explaining African social contexts; the value of critical African scholarship to our understanding of the continent’s political economy of development; the descriptive, explanatory, and predictive potency of interpretivist emancipatory approaches vis-à-vis positivist developmental ones; the significance of gender power analysis for understanding women’s experiences of violent extremism; application of social science research across research communities on the critical issue of environmentalism; as well as theorising the confluence of internal displacement, weaponisation and agency of women and violent extremism. The book, authored by scholars from multiple disciplinary backgrounds based at institutions across three continents, underscores the imperative value of transformational epistemologies for Africa and demonstrates that the generation of such epistemologies is contingent upon collaborative knowledge-production projects across epistemic communities.
Shadrack Wanjala Nasong’o, PhD, is a Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. His research interest lies in democratisation, identity politics, social conflict, governance and development. Nasong’o has been honoured with the Rhodes College’s Clarence Day Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity, and the Ali Mazrui Award for Research and Scholarly Excellence from the University of Texas at Austin.
Eka Ikpe, PhD, is a Reader and Director, African Leadership Centre at King’s College London. Her themes of interest include developmentalism, industrial development and structural transformation, peacebuilding, post-conflict reconstruction and the economic costs of conflict and creative economies.
Aspects of SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS in Botswana (soft copy)
Aspects of SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS in Botswana
This book offers the readers with a nuanced discussion on the promotion, protection, and fulfilment of aspects of economic, social, and cultural rights in Botswana. Borrowing from lessons from other jurisdictions, international and regional standards, contributors to this book highlight the extent to which the country’s policy, legal and constitutional framework has provided for the enjoyment of these rights. With specific cases studies on the right to education, the right to the environment, the right to water, the right to adequate housing and social security, the book discusses the country’s policy, legal and constitutional framework relating to these rights in Botswana. The book also discusses the justiciability of economic, social, and cultural rights in Botswana. To that end, the book offers an insight into the nature and extent of the enjoyment of these rights in a jurisdiction where they are neither constitutionally protected nor spelt out as directive principles of state policy.
Bonolo Ramadi Dinokopila is an Associate Professor in the Department of Law, University of Botswana.
Jimcall Pfumorodze is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Law, University of Botswana.
Rowland Cole has served the judiciary of Botswana as a magistrate and the University of Botswana as a Senior Lecturer.
$13 – $30
Africa and the Disruptions of the Twenty-first Century
This collection of essays interrogates the repositioning of Africa and its diasporas in the unfolding disruptive transformations of the early twenty-first century. It is divided into five parts focusing on America’s racial dysfunctions, navigating global turbulence, Africa’s political dramas, the continent’s persistent mythologisation and disruptions in higher education. It closes with tributes to two towering African public intellectuals, Ali Mazrui and Thandika Mkandawire, who have since joined the ancestors.
$18 – $30
