CODESRIA

📣 Appel à candidatures — MRI 2026 (Appel spécial pour femmes chercheuses)
Le CODESRIA lance un appel spécial à destination des chercheuses africaines dans le cadre du programme Meaning-Making Research Initiatives (MRI) 2026. Cet appel soutient des projets de recherche individuels ou collectifs visant à mieux comprendre, interpréter et façonner les futurs africains, à partir d’analyses conceptuelles et empiriques rigoureuses.
✨ Les chercheuses, à différents stades de carrière, sont encouragées à postuler.
🗓 Date limite : 27 février 2026
🔗 Postulez ici :
https://codesria.org/fr/initiatives-de-recherche-pour-la-construction-du-sens-mri-2026-appel-special-pour-les-femmes-chercheuses/
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📣 Call for Applications — MRI 2026 (Special Call for Female Scholars)
CODESRIA invites African women scholars to apply for the Meaning-Making Research Initiatives (MRI) 2026. This special call supports individual and group research projects that contribute to understanding, interpreting, and shaping African futures through strong conceptual and empirical work.
✨ Female scholars at different career stages are encouraged to apply.
🗓 Deadline: 27 February 2026
🔗 Apply here:
https://codesria.org/meaning-making-research-initiatives-mri-2026-special-call-for-female-scholars/
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📣 Chamada para candidaturas — MRI 2026 (Chamada especial para mulheres pesquisadoras)
O CODESRIA convida pesquisadoras africanas a candidatarem-se ao programa Meaning-Making Research Initiatives (MRI) 2026. Esta chamada especial apoia projetos de pesquisa individuais e coletivos que contribuam para compreender, interpretar e moldar os futuros de África, com base em trabalho conceptual e empírico sólido.
✨ Pesquisadoras em diferentes fases da carreira são incentivadas a candidatar-se.
🗓 Prazo final: 27 de fevereiro de 2026
🔗 Candidate-se aqui:
https://codesria.org/iniciativas-de-pesquisa-para-a-construcao-de-significado-mri-2026-chamada-especial-mulheres/

📚 New Publication Alert!

CODESRIA proudly presents ''AI and Higher Education: Opportunities, Challenges and Trends'', a timely and incisive monograph by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Ben Vinson III.

The book explores how AI is reshaping teaching, research, governance, administration, and institutional culture across global universities — while raising urgent ethical and environmental questions.

Endorsed by leading scholars as “timely, comprehensive, informative” and “a vital resource.”

👉 Order your copy:
https://bookshop.codesria.org/index.php/product/ai-and-higher-education-opportunities-challenges-and-trends/

Today, CODESRIA had the pleasure of hosting distinguished representatives from the Japan International Cooperation Agency JICA Senegal .
Their visit opened meaningful conversations on potential pathways for collaboration and mutual learning.
We look forward to exploring these opportunities in support of knowledge production in the social sciences.

We are pleased to present the latest issue of the CODESRIA Bulletin Online (No. 12, November 2025).
The article examines the intricate interplay between geopolitics, critical minerals, US foreign policy, and the emergence of dangerous narratives that are shaping global perceptions of Nigeria.
👉 Read the full issue here https://journals.codesria.org/index.php/codesriabulletin/article/view/6188