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Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
Address Main lines of research Staff profile and disciplines Networks Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
P.O. Box 3304
Dakar
Senegal
Tel: +221-825 98 22/3
Fax: +221-824 12 89
E-mail: codesria@sonatel.senet.net
Web site: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/codesria/codes_Menu.html
Achille Mbembe
Executive SecretaryCODESRIA creates thematic research networks that cut across linguistic and regional barriers in the following areas:
- Agrarian structure and change
- State and society
- Industrialization
- Population
- Cooperation and integration
- Science and technology
- Education
- Children
- Social sciences: theory and practice
- Women
- Social movements
- Culture, ideology and ideality
- Health
- EnvironmentForty-one (41) pan-African staff with various professional and intellectual backgrounds
CODESRIA is an independent organization whose principal objectives are facilitating research, promoting research-based publishing and creating multiple forums geared towards the exchange of views and information among African researchers.
- Regional Co-ordinating Committee of Development Associations (ICCDA)
- Latin America Social Science Research Council (CLASCO)
- International Federation of Social Science (IFSS)- CODESRIA publishes a Bulletin and a quarterly journal, Africa Development, the longest standing Africa-based journal.
Research results are disseminated through Working Papers, the Monograph Series, and the CODESRIA Book SeriesLast updated: 12. December 1999