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Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is a Professor and chair of epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. He is former head of the Archie Mafeje Research Institute (AMRI) and Professor in the Department of Development Studies at the University of South Africa. He has taught in universities in Zimbabwe, United Kingdom and South Africa and has published extensively on history and politics.

“That the post-1945 global multilateral system is in crisis is no longer in dispute. What is at issue is the question of how best to transcend its many discontents and build a qualitatively new order. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni argues vigorously, and with ample historical references, that what is called for is a root and branch dismantling of the moribund order and its replacement with a new one that draws from the rich decolonial, anti-imperialist, anti-patriarchal, and human-centred heritage that is rooted in the history of struggles in the global South. Students of contemporary world affairs will find much in this book that is at once enlightening and challenging. For practitioners, the book will reshape their thinking about the scope and options for change required for the birth of a new world order.” - Adebayo Olukoshi, Distinguished Professor, Wits School of Governance, South Africa

 “Once upon a time global events were narrated by local narrators placed in their own North Atlantic perceptions. No longer. The Russian special operation in Ukraine that triggered Beyond the Coloniality of Internationalism is a case in point. It is narrated from also at once from the Global South and the Global East. The closing of North Atlantic hegemony is manifested in the closing of unilateral narratives and unipolar international relations. This book is a magnificent antidote to what Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, encapsulated in a mighty single sentence: the danger of a single story. Additionally, this refreshing narrative and analysis shows us that the power of the singles stories was and still is a story of modernity of internationalism. This book turns the pages around: Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni unveils the colonial stories of unipolar internationalism. By doing so, the book reminds us of another sign of the change of era: decolonial thinking and being in the world, rewording the world, is not an academic question, it is about life. Knowing to live rather than living to know.Walter D. Mignolo, William Hane Wannamaker Distinguished Professor of Romance Studies, Duke University

 Professor Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni's powerful book draws from the Ukraine war to provide an anti-colonial interpretation of international relations. He argues that the West's attempt to maintain its domination is futile, and that the forces of decolonisation will prevail in the building of a genuine multilateral world order.Professor Vijay Prashad, Director, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research

“In a world wracked again with war and despair, what does a decolonial ethos have to contribute? It puts forward a deliberate anti-imperial ethos. An ethos against conquest. And it crafts this ethos with a cosmopolitan intent. Finally, we are all one and united in vulnerability, but also the right to live in peace. Sabelo J.  Ndlovu-Gatsheni examines the thought of both Olaf Palme and Nelson Mandela and, in this new book, crafts a powerful message of deliverance and peace.”-Stephen Chan, Professor of World Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

 From the so-called Russia-Ukraine War, through the Middle East “theatre of wars” to the decolonize projects, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni takes this complex scenario and repaints the canvas vividly from the right side, revisiting history, critiquing paradigms, and, most importantly, offering prospects for an alternative approach. This comprehensive analysis is a must-read for scholars of international relations, human rights, decolonial studies, peace studies, and just about anyone who needs a diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment plan for our world order.”  -Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Professor of African and Gender Studies, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana

 “In this book Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni undertakes a breath-taking task of synthesis, bringing together into conversation Marxism (especially in its Leninist incarnation), the Black Radical Tradition and decolonial perspectives into an analysis of the continuing "coloniality of international" power relations. He uses the current Russia-Ukraine war to cast a fresh glance at the entire project of colonialism and imperialism and its operation today in terms of the "Cold War" that continues long after its official end. At one level, an intervention in the area of international relations, the book is much more - and as the subtitle suggests, concerned quite centrally with the "reworlding of the word from the Global South." This reworlding, Ndlovu-Gatsheni argues, can only be possible by mining repressed knowledges, exploring paths never taken and imagining possibilities considered unimaginable - a task that is in the first place epistemological and involves what he calls "rethinking and unthinking from the crevices, ashes and ruins left by dying Euro North American modernity and its colonialities." His is an optimistic project whose optimism derives from the recognition that colonialism, imperialism and the Cold War are not merely economic and political structures that apparently exist independently of the players involved but are put in place through the massive apparatus of Euro-American knowledge, demolishing which is the key task of decolonial theory and practice.”Aditya Nigam, Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India

“This is a book that is as politically enticing as it is beautifully conceived and written with the force to inspire us never to look away from the horrors whilst providing the ink of hope and the power to collectively change said state of things. Ndlovu- Gatsheni’s book is a political toolbox, as much as it is a spiritual canvas, and a historical map for all of us who refuse to believe that no other world is possible. “Beyond coloniality of internationalism Reworlding the World from the Global South” synthesizes and harmonically deploys the major schools of thought and action involved in thinking the political crises of our times (ecological, political, racial, capitalist, patriarchal) and through the understanding and practice that the centre of coloniality of power is encrypted power it creates the conditions to de-think and rethink them anew.” Ricardo Sanin-Restrepo, author of Decolonizing Democracy

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Beyond the Coloniality of Internationalism: Reworlding the World from the Global South

Beyond the Coloniality of Internationalism: Reworlding the World from the Global South

Deploying a decolonial epistemic perspective to reflect on a terminally ill international system besieged by numerous crises, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni makes a strong case for reworlding the world from the global South in general and global Africa in particular. Taking the Russia-Ukraine War as a crisis that portends a change of the present world order, he projects an emerging planetary pluriversal future. Challenging mainstream theories of internationalism, the book highlights anti-imperial struggles and decolonial praxes of reconstituting and remaking the world after neoliberal imperial internationalism.

“Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni calls for a root and branch dismantling of the moribund order and its replacement with a new one that draws from the rich decolonial, anti-imperialist, anti-patriarchal, and human-centred heritage that is rooted in the history of struggles in the global South.”- Adebayo Olukoshi, Distinguished Professor, Wits School of Governance, South Africa

 “This book is a magnificent antidote to what Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, encapsulated in a mighty single sentence: the danger of a single story. By doing so, the book reminds us of another sign of the change of era: decolonial thinking and being in the world, rewording the world, is not an academic question, it is about life. Knowing to live rather than living to know.” Walter D. Mignolo, William Wannamaker Distinguished Professor, Duke University

Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni’s powerful book draws from the Ukraine war to provide an anti-colonial interpretation of international relations.” Vijay Prashad, Professor & Director, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research

“Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni crafts a powerful message of deliverance and peace.”-Stephen Chan, Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London

“Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni repaints the canvas vividly from the right side, revisiting history, critiquing paradigms, and, most importantly, offering prospects for an alternative approach.” Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Professor of African & Gender Studies, University of Ghana

 “Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni undertakes a breath-taking task of synthesis, bringing together into conversation Marxism, the Black Radical Tradition and decolonial perspectives into an analysis of the continuing coloniality of international power relations.” Aditya Nigam, Professor at the Centre for Developing Societies, Delhi

 “Ndlovu- Gatsheni’s book is a political toolbox, as much as it is a spiritual canvas, and a historical map for all of us who refuse to believe that no other world is possible.Ricardo Sanin-Restrepo, Professor of Legal and Political Theory, Universidad Javeriana

 

CODESRIA 2023

ISBN 978 2 38234 099 8

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ECONOMIES DE LA PRISON EN AFRIQUE DU SUD, AU NIGERIA ET AU SÉNÉGAL

ECONOMIES DE LA PRISON EN AFRIQUE DU SUD, AU NIGERIA ET AU SÉNÉGAL

Cet ouvrage propose une ethnographie de l’institution carcérale dans trois pays africains et rend compte de ses évolutions/appropriations dans le temps. En décrivant les acteurs avec leurs interactions/transactions, les productions de légitimités et constructions identitaires qui y ont cours, la perméabilité des frontières entre le dedans et dehors, il lève le voile sur la structuration des espaces carcéraux et de l’économie des valeurs qui y circulent et la confrontation des logiques formelles et informelles qui gouvernent leur quotidien. L’approche comparée de cette question sur plusieurs terrains avec diverses approches disciplinaires permet de sortir de l’image d’une prison « africaine » réifiée comme un espace clos, et de l’envisager comme un système de transactions sociales (valeurs, biens, services), de circulations de pouvoirs, de production de statuts, de rapports de domination, dans différents contextes socio-politiques africains. La question de la prison ouvre aussi à la réflexion sur les rapports entre le local et le global. Si les formes diversifiées d’expériences de la prison traduisent des héritages singuliers, elles s’articulent aussi à des cultures politiques contemporaines, avec des modèles de « bonnes pratiques » et des principes gestionnaires «  voyageurs  » qui participent ainsi à façonner le paysage des systèmes pénitentiaires et à construire les États africains.

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Tombouctou: Pour une histoire de l’érudition en Afrique de l’Ouest

Cet ouvrage est fascinant à lire pour tous ceux qui souhaitent percer l’aura de mystère et de légende qui s’est construit autour de Tombouctou. Tombouctou : pour une histoire de l’érudition en Afrique de l’Ouest s’efforce de contextualiser et de clarifier l’importance pour, le Mali, l’Afrique et le reste du monde, des efforts déployés en vue de préserver les manuscrits de Tombouctou.

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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.

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LA DIPLOMATIE DE LA REPUBLIQUE DE GUINEE – Passé, présent et avenir

LA DIPLOMATIE DE LA REPUBLIQUE DE GUINEE

Passé, présent et avenir

La République de Guinée est devenue indépendante le 2 octobre 1958. En matière de politique étrangère, l’on constate des continuités ? travers tous les régimes en ce qui concerne certains fondements. Mais si la première République (1958-1984) a mis l’accent sur les considérations d’ordre idéologique, les régimes successifs depuis 1984 se sont concentrés plutôt sur les aspects économiques. Cet ouvrage présente les contextes géopolitiques de la diplomatie guinéenne depuis l’indépendance et porte un regard critique sur les moyens humains et les infrastructures à l’aide desquels elle s’est déployée. Il analyse la nature et les facteurs explicatifs des relations bilatérales entre la Guinée et certains des pays avec lesquels elle a entretenu des relations particulières. Il s’intéresse aussi aux actions multilatérales du pays dans les cadres notamment de la CEDEAO, de l’OUA/UA et de l’ONU. Le dernier chapitre porte un regard prospectif sur l’avenir de la diplomatie guinéenne à l’ère du numérique. Il s’appuie sur un solide rappel des théories de relations internationales dans la première partie, et une riche littérature en français et en anglais, y compris des documents officiels sur les différents aspects du livre. Il a bénéficié de beaucoup d’entretiens avec de nombreux diplomates guinéens.

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Les matérialités contemporaines du religieux aux frontières du privé

Les matérialités contemporaines du religieux aux frontières du privé 

 

Dans les sociétés ouest-africaines, l’espace public est fortement imprégné de religiosités. Il s’y édicte une kyrielle de conduites à tenir susceptibles d’influencer les croyants. Comprendre ces dynamiques religieuses implique de saisir comment ces normes pénètrent la vie privée des individus, et comment les croyants – chrétiens et musulmans – se saisissent de ces normes, les mettent en scène ou les détournent dans leur quotidien. Fruit d’un travail collectif mené dans l’ANR « Priverel », en partenariat avec les universités de Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Abomey Calavi (Bénin) et Gaston Berger (Saint-Louis, Sénégal), cet ouvrage s’appuie sur la notion « d’espace privé religieux » pour analyser l’appropriation par les croyants des normes religieuses au Bénin, au Burkina Faso, en Côte d’Ivoire et au Sénégal.

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HOME AND EXILE: FORCED MIGRATIONS AND SOUTH SUDANESE REFUGEES IN KENYA’S KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP

The story of humankind is about the search for hospitable places to call home. Migration is historically a part of this story. People have left one place for the other, based on challenges in the place of origin, and perceived attractions in the desired destinations. In emergency migrations, the character of the African refugee camp at the end of the twentieth Century has gradually transformed into that of an intermediate stage in incomplete migrations.

Barrack O. Muluka

 

Codesria 2023

ISBN  978 2 38234 098 1

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Usages et pratiques des TIC dans les situations éducatives et de formation pour la résolution de problèmes complexes (ebook)

Usages et pratiques des TIC dans les situations éducatives et de formation pour la résolution de problèmes complexes (Ebook)

L’université Gaston Berger de St Louis a entrepris depuis quelques années un processus dynamique de diversification de son offre de formation et d’amélioration de ses stratégies pédagogiques. Dans ce cadre, il a été mis en place une UFR des Sciences de l’éducation. Ce travail cherche à voir de quelles manières, les étudiants africains peuvent participer à la réflexion globale sur les défis de nos pays par la mise en oeuvre de curriculum d’enseignement et de formation en technologie éducative cohérent et pragmatique prenant en charge les dynamiques de changement dans lesquelles s’engagent nos états. Il cherche également à réinterroger le rôle des écoles et des institutions d’enseignement supérieur dans la manière de repenser nos défis en termes d’habiletés indispensables. En se fondant sur les approches innovantes en Technologie éducative, qui prennent appui sur les théories socioconstructivistes en sciences de l’apprentissage, des dispositifs numériques seront utilisés pour collaborer (coélaborer) à la résolution de problèmes complexes inhérents aux mutations des sociétés modernes. Et pour cela, il est envisagé une approche méthodologique fondée sur l’approche par les compétences par une mise en application des principes qui encadrent la coélaboration de connaissances (12 Principes de Knowledge Building) et à travers une démarche itérative s’appuyant sur la « Design Based-Research » (Recherche basée sur la conception).

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.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.57054/codesria.pub.555

ISBN : 978 2 38234 092 9

 

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.

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Aspects of SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS in Botswana

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.

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Le développement synonyme de modernité, la modernité synonyme de développement (Printed)

Le développement synonyme de modernité, la modernité synonyme de développement (Printed) 

Cet ouvrage analyse l’impact de l’idée occidentale de la « modernité » sur le développement et le sous-développement en Afrique. Il retrace la généalogie de l’idée occidentale de la modernité depuis les concepts européens des Lumières sur la nature universelle de l’histoire humaine et du développement. L’ouvrage montre comment cette idée a été utilisée pour justifier l’exploitation et l’oppression de l’Afrique par l’Occident. Il soutient que le développement contemporain en théorie et en pratique est une continuation du projet des Lumières, et que l’Afrique ne peut atteindre un véritable développement qu’en rejetant la modernité occidentale et en inventant ses propres formes de modernité.

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Development as Modernity, Modernity as Development (Printed)  

This book analyses the impact of the Western idea of 'modernity' on development and underdevelopment in Africa. It traces the genealogy of the Western idea of modernity from European Enlightenment concepts of the universal nature of human history and development, and shows how this idea was used to justify the Western exploitation and oppression of Africa. It argues that contemporary development, theory and practice is a continuation of the Enlightenment project and that Africa can only achieve real development by rejecting Western modernity and inventing its own forms of modernity. The book is divided into four sections. The first section provides an outline of the theory of modernity in the Enlightenment project. In the second section, an attempt is made to trace the genealogy of the idea of development as modernity and how the African development process gets entangled with it. Here, its evolution is mapped through three periods: early modernity, capitalist modernity and late modernity. Zeroing in on the current era of late or hypermodernity, the book contests the idea that there is something new in globalisation and its neo-liberal development paradigm. The third section turns to the complex but pertinent question of how, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Africa can transcend the impasse of modernity. The fourth and final section sums up the argument and points the way forward.

  ISBN: 9782869783935 CODESRIA 2009 Prix : 5 000 CFA      
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