Book Description

The report of the 2012 membership of CODESRIA was a reflec- New Millennium that the effort to engage evaluation also under-scored the impor- tion of the growth and diversity of the the policy communities became more im- tance for CODESRIA to think about the social science research community, and portant, and more systematic. [...] CODESRIA has developed with the Afri- the name of the Council from 'Council for can Union, the UNECA, African RECs, the Development of Economic and Social Re-thinking Development, and and the social movements as a first step Research in Africa', to 'Council for the "Running Where Others Walked" towards ensuring that the research and Development of Social Science Research in Africa', in acknowledge. [...] Over the wards enabling various sections of the text of the transition that had just occurred years, research themes and the range of CODESRIA community (particularly the at the level of the Secretariat. [...] One impact of the crisis of sembly; and the Secretariat, under the that has now become widely shared higher education in Africa has been the guidance of the Executive Committee, among members of the CODESRIA, and weakening and impoverishment of re- developed programmes for the Council African research community is the result search and of outputs from research car- based on the priorities identifi. [...] The conditions of on the production of history and the The end of history proposes a unique production of history and of the past in economies of knowledge, seduction and possible future of rationality and academic and public spaces have moral, social and cultural prescriptions productivity with the triumph of the free undergone various transformations.