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Council for the Development of Social
Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)

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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: [email protected]
Web site: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/codesria/codes_Menu.html

Achille Mbembe
Executive Secretary

 CODESRIA 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
– Environment

Forty-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 Series

Last updated: 12. December 1999