Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, January News
Events:
Launch of a special issue on Senegal and Zimbabwe, co-edited by DSA Council member and Lecturer in African Studies and International Development, Rama Dieng. This hybrid event will launch a special issue of the Quarterly Journal of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, as a double bilingual (English-French) special issue of the Quarterly Journal of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).
The issue focuses on: agrarian change, food security, migration and sustainable development in Senegal & Zimbabwe. Register.
Blogs
“In order to better resist contemporary, neocolonial accumulation, we need to historicize land grabs in Africa.” New blog in English on Africa is a Country: and in French on Afrique XXI by Rama Salla Dieng.
Publications
- Co-authored open access article by CAS Senior Lecturer Jean-Benoit Falisse in the Journal on Education in Emergencies.
- Open access article by CAS lecturer Amir Anwar: Platforms of Inequality: Gender Dynamics of Digital Labour in Africa.
- Open access article by CAS PhD alumni Tom Cunningham: Missionaries, the State, and Labour in Colonial Kenya c.1909–c.1919: the ‘Gospel of Work’ and the ‘Able-Bodied Male Native’