CODESRIA at the 8th Nigeria International Book fair (NIBF)

The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is pleased to invite all visitors to the 8th Nigeria International Book fair (NIBF) to the book exhibition that it is organizing during the NIBF.

The 8th Nigeria International Book Fair (NIBF 2009) is scheduled to hold from May 11th - 16th, 2009 at the Multi-purpose Halls of the University of Lagos.

The theme for NIBF 2009 is: “The Book Chain and National Development.” It is geared towards promoting literacy and facilitating book availability in Africa. This fits in well with the CODESRIA objectives of promoting the work of African scholars, who have researched and published extensively on almost all aspects of national development and regional integration in Africa.

The theme of the 8th NIBF is also closely related to the umbrella theme of CODESRIA’s Strategic Plan for 2007-2011, which is “Rethinking Development and Reviving Development Thinking in Africa”.

Books produced by CODESRIA National Working Groups, Comparative Research Networks, Multinational Working Groups, and other CODESRIA programmes such as the South-South, Gender Research, Children and Youth, Economic Policies, and Health, Politics and Society programmes, will be on exhibition at the CODESRIA Stand. So will be recent issues of Africa Development, the Journal of Higher Education in Africa, the African Sociological Review, CODESRIA Bulletin, the Africa Review of Books, and other CODESRIA journals.