Dr Godwin Murunga, the Executive Secretary for CODESRIA

The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, CODESRIA, is announcing a call for proposals to support Schools and Faculties of Social Sciences and Humanities and Doctoral Schools under a programme called “Supporting innovations in the humanities in African universities” to revitalise and re-energise the teaching and research of the humanities in African higher education institutions.

The initiative supported by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation carries forward CODESRIA’s work in strengthening the institutional bases for knowledge production in the social sciences and humanities in African universities, and is linked to the Council’s 2017- 2021 Strategic Plan that focuses on ‘Reaching New Frontiers in Social Research and Knowledge Production for African Transformation and Development’.

According to the call, proposals should be submitted by individual/groups of graduate/doctoral schools and/or HSS faculties and teaching departments by 30th March 2020.

The three-year programme strategy will be to support activities that contribute towards reviving infrastructures for teaching and researching the humanities, including support for faculty seminars and workshops and supporting faculty-based publication and dissemination outlets.

Established in 1973, CODESRIA is a Pan-African organization dedicated to boost the place of the humanities in African universities and re-assert the place of the social sciences in the continent’s development against a backdrop of policies that it claims undervalue the humanities and social sciences and even question their relevance.

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Article by Jedidah Mwangi

https://www.codesria.org/spip.php?article3000&lang=en

See the call on Funds Beeline here