The Social Sciences and Africa’s Future

Authors

Knowledge Rajohane Matshedisho
Claude Abé
Mildred Kiconco Barya
Esther Van Heerden
Ingrid Palmary
DOI: https://doi.org/10.57054/codesria.pub.229

Synopsis

Published December 2005; 154 pages; ISBN 2-86978-170-9. Interventions Series

Africa’s younger generation is often perceived as muted and distant to the struggle for answers and meaning on the continent. Could the perceived silence of the younger generation be explained in part by the deafness of age to the kicks of youth? What can be done to make the younger generation more committed and relevant in the quest for solutions to the challenges of knowledge production and development?

Aware of the need to promote and reinforce the interchange of ideas and experiences among Africa’s youth and between them and the older generations, CODESRIA is pleased to launch its Interventions series with this collection of winning essays by young scholars who participated at an essay competition organised in 2003 to mark the Council’s 30th anniversary. It is hoped that this initiative achieves the purpose of promoting a culture of open debate and of critical scholarship, and of encouraging participation amongst Africa’s youth in the shaping of the academic and public future of Africa.

ISBN 2-86978-170-9 Africa: US$10.00, 5000CFA; Elsewhere: £10.00 /$15.00

 

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Author Biographies

Knowledge Rajohane Matshedisho

Raji Matshedisho’s academic background is in Labour and Economic Sociology and his PhD was on “Access to Higher Education for Disabled Students”. In 2011-2013, he was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (in Gottingen, Germany) in which he spent time in team research on ‘encountering diversity’. A CODESRIA laureate (2005), his research interests and publication are in disability studies, and assessment & writing in higher education. He also facilitates Postgraduate Supervision and PhD Acceleration Programme for the South African Technology Network and for the Center for Learning, Teaching & Development (Wits). His research areas are disability studies and educational assessments.

Mildred Kiconco Barya

née en 1976, est une femme de lettres ougandaise. Elle a reçu en 2008 le Pan African Literary Forum Prize for Africana Fiction, et a été remarquée précédemment pour sa poésie, particulièrement pour deux recueils, Men Love Chocolates But They Don't Say en 2002, et The Price of Memory: After the Tsunami en 2006.

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Published

October 6, 2005

Series

CODESRIA Books
Copyright (c) 2005 CODESRIA Books Publication System