Theoretical Grounding in African Research: CODESRIA College of Mentors Handbook II

Authors

Abdul Karim Bangura
Anthony Bizos
Joseph Mensah
DOI: https://doi.org/10.57054/codesria.pub.2181

Synopsis

Since any serious systematic work must be both methodologically and theoretically grounded, we decided to do a follow-up to the first volume of our CODESRIA College of Mentors handbook which addresses the former aspect. The present volume which deals with the latter aspect entails about 150 African centered and Western theories that can be employed to ground research on Africa or an African phenomenon. This is a handbook dealing with theories from across the disciplines for easy reference, not a book on theories in one discipline whereby each theory is augmented by a case study or several case studies. The reader who is interested in application will be well-served by looking at our four chapters in which the studied theories are applied to relevant case studies. In addition, a virtual relationship of all the theories covered has not been established by making references across disciplines and chapters in the book because theories are used for different purposes in different disciplines, for the obvious reason that their foci of analyses are different. Furthermore, our handbook is not about challenging or refuting theories, no matter their origin. It is about their existence. It is up to the user to do so if and when necessary, just as we did in our four applications chapters.

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Author Biographies

Abdul Karim Bangura

is a Researcher-In-Residence of Abrahamic Connections and Islamic Peace Studies at the Center for Global Peace at American University and the director ofThe African Institution, both in Washington DC. He holds five PhDs in Political Science, Development Economics, Linguistics, Computer Science, and Mathematics. He is the author of more than 100 books and more than 700 scholarly articles. He is also the winner of more than 50 prestigious scholarly and community service awards.

Anthony Bizos

is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and the coordinator of the department's MA degree programme in Diplomatic Studies. His areas of specialisation are Theories of International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis and Research Methodology. He is currently a member of the teaching faculty at the African Leadership Centre (ALC) in Nairobi, Kenya. He is alsocurrently a teaching fellow at the Panteion University of Political Sciences in Athens, Greece.

Joseph Mensah

is a product of the University of Ghana and is now a Full Professor of Geography at York University in Toronto, Canada. He completed his MA and PhD at the Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Alberta, respectively, and taught at the Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia before joining York in 2002. He has received several competitive grants, and has written several journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and books.

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Published

October 26, 2023

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CODESRIA Books
Copyright (c) 2023 CODESRIA Books Publication System

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10.57054/codesria.pub.2181.2967