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B.U.N. Igwe & A. Fadahunsi
CODESRIA, 1994, 204 p.,
ISBN : 1-870784-07-3 (cased)
Academic Freedom and the Social Responsibilities of Academics in Tanzania (Printed)
When the Dar es Salaam Declaration on Academic Freedom and Social Responsibility of Academics came up in the early 1990s, African higher-education systems were in a serious, multi-dimensional and long-standing crisis. Hand-in-hand with the imbalances and troubles that rocked and ruined African economies, the crisis in the academia was characterised by the collapse of infrastructures, inadequate teaching personnel and poor staff development and motivation. It was against this background that the questions of academic freedom and the responsibilities and autonomy of institutions of higher-learning were raised in the Dar es Salaam Declaration. In February 2005, the University of Dar es Salaam Staff Association (UDASA), in cooperation with CODESRIA, organised a workshop to bring together the staff associations of some public and private universities in Tanzania, in order to renew their commitment to the basic principles of the Dar es Salaam Declaration and its sister document – the Kampala Declaration on Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibility. The workshop was also aimed at re-invigorating the social commitment of African intellectuals. The papers included in this volume reflect the depth and potentials of the debates that took place during the workshop. The volume is published in honour of Chachage Seithy L. Chachage, who was an active part of the workshop but unfortunately passed away in 2006.
Saida Yahya-Othman is a retired Associate Professor of the University of Dar es Salaam, where she worked for over 40 years. She trained at the Universities of Dar es Salaam, York and Edinburgh, in English linguistics, and has taught and published largely in that area, particularly discourse analysis and pragmatics. In 1972 she married Haroub Othman, who died in 2009. She lives in Dar es Salaam, where she does pre-publication work.
ISBN 9789987082834
2013
Love and Desire : Concepts, Narratives and Practices of sex Amongst Youths in Maputo City (Printed)
This monograph analyses the perceptions and practices of sexuality among young people in post-colonial and post-socialist Maputo city. Using a combination of various methods, it compares sexuality in two different generation and describes two diverse kinds of relationships : the occasional and steady.
Occasional relationships tend to show a new pattern of condom use that corroborates the discourse advocated in the prevention of HIV/AIDS ; and the steady where sex is proposition of commitment on the part of young men, and where, there are major possibilities of HIV/AIDS infection. In both kinds of relationships, sex, described by informants in terms of a model of heterosexual penetration, is perceived as a factor that permits transition from childhood to adulthood, by passing parental and other senior kin control.
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
Frontières de la citoyenneté et violence politique en Côte d’Ivoire (Printed)
Ce volume est à la recherche d’une explication aux événements survenus depuis 1999 en Côte-d’Ivoire, qu’il est convenu d’appeler la « crise ivoirienne ». Il semble que l’interprétation événementielle des faits apportait des explications insatisfaisantes à cette fracture profonde et que la bonne perspective conduisait obligatoirement à revisiter les catégories théoriques essentialistes que s’obstinent à nous imposer un regard faussé, alourdi par des préjugés ethnocentriques. Une prise de distance avec l’événementiel passe par un questionnement approfondi sur les causes de l’effondrement annoncé du modèle dit ivoirien; le sens historique des choses est appelé pour examiner l’enchaînement et l’interaction des faits dont il faut, à chaque fois, statuer sur le poids historique dans la direction tragique de la dynamique sociale. En cherchant les origines sociales de l’irruption de cette déchirure sociale et politique, les auteurs du volume partent tous d’une question centrale : de quelle manière le poids de la formation de la société ivoirienne moderne intervient-il sur les modalités des actions individuelles et des regroupements collectifs actuels ? La fracture brutale et violente qu’a connue la formation sociale ivoirienne pose de nouveau la question des identités collectives qui dévoile en même temps les enjeux liés au caractère inachevé de la construction des « États-nations » en Afrique. C’est une erreur, en effet, de penser que cette crise s’est spontanément déclarée dans les instances supérieures partisanes et de négliger le fait que derrière les déclarations ostentatoires à propos de l’Unité Nationale, les regroupements précoloniaux ne se sont pas complètement dissouts dans la « Nation » moderne. De plus, dans le processus de fabrication de l’espace social « national », de nouvelles combinaisons sociales s’y engagent en se réinventant continûment. Les racines des crises actuelles sont, nous semble-t-il, à chercher dans la transformation inédite que connaissent les sociétés africaines contemporaines.
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.
Higher Education in Africa:Crises, Reforms and Transformation/ Enseignement supérieur en afrique francophone: crises, reformes et transformations (Printed)
This book provides theoretical tools for analysing contemporary African higher education systems and institutions. It also examines policy challenges and the prospects for social progress. It points to critical areas of investigation for the CODESRIA Multinational Working Group (MWG) research network on higher education. Conceived as a background text for this network, the book traces the historical roots and the global factors of the African higher education crises and the search for transformation to address issues of legitimacy and relevance. It analyses the origins, nature, and mission of African higher education, the problems associated with cultural colonization and the dependency trap, the local/global nexus in the crises with a special attention to the structural adjustment programmes (SAPs), and the various waves of reforms and innovations. Furthermore, the book presents a synopsis of studies that were conducted on the crises, highlighting both their findings and recommendations.
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