SAD NEWS
Dear Colleagues, Friends,
I share this sad news along with the text of an interview with Thandika last year. Here, he sums up the lessons of a lifetime’s work.
Thandika Mkandawire has passed on!
Dear Colleagues, Friends,
I share this sad news along with the text of an interview with Thandika last year. Here, he sums up the lessons of a lifetime’s work.
Thandika Mkandawire has passed on!
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Djibouti, the small Horn of Africa state, has great geopolitical significance as a result of its location, positioned along the Bab el-Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden, where the maritime trade routes of three continents converge: Europe, Asia and Africa. Djibouti has become instrumental in controlling the trans-shipment of goods, particularly oil. It is also where world powers vie for control—as demonstrated by the military presence of multiple global powers, four of which (China, France, the USA and Japan) have established military bases in the country.
This Friday 4 October, there will be an excerpt from Mamdani's chapter in the book featured in the Mail &Guardian- in the Education section. It will also be free to online
Follow the link; https://mg.co.za/article/2019-10-04-00-our-universities-need-relevance-and-excellence
Makerere Institute of Social Research congratulates two of its students
1. Yosef Sintayehu Jemberie, and
2. Evarist Ngabirano
for being chosen as Social Science Fellows 2019-20 in the Social Science Research Council’s Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Program.
The TTI evaluation covered 43 think tanks in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It identified the best 12 for in-depth evaluation. MISR was one of these.
The Makerere Institute of Social Research launched its Interdisciplinary PhD in Social Studies in January 2012. The five-year programme entails two years of coursework and three years of dissertation research and writing. Four broad themes define the program’s intellectual focus: Political Studies, Political Economy, Historical Studies, and Literary and Cultural Studies. Students specialize in one field, but take classes across all four.
On 30-31 March 2019, MISR hosted a symposium to plan for a five-year research collaboration entitled: “Decolonisation, the Disciplines and the University”. This initiative is based on a $1.5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation and includes the University of Ghana; the American University of Beirut, Centre for the Study of Social Silences, Kolkata; the Ifriqiyya Colloquium at Columbia University, and MISR. The meeting was attended by researchers drawn from the five institutions.
The Director Makerere Institute of Social Research Prof. Mahmood Mamdani, cordially invites you to the PhD Public Defence of Ms. Netsanet Gebremichael Woldesenbet scheduled to take place on Friday 15th February, 2019 at 2:15pm. at Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) in Seminar Room 1.