Since 2018, Les Ateliers de la Pensée de Dakar (ADLP) in association with the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) have set up a Doctoral School whose primary objective is to contribute to the empirical, methodological and theoretical renewal of the imagination in the study of Africa and, more generally, the dynamics of transformation in contexts of instability and uncertainty.

This 2024 edition is held in partnership with the Global Africa program, supported by Université Gaston Berger (Senegal), IRD, UIR and LASDEL. Global Africa's Junior Researchers' Institute (JRI) has been set up to help young African researchers integrate into scientific communities in the social sciences, enabling them to play an active role in shaping the world's knowledge.

The School aims in particular to introduce participants to contemporary transnational debates on new knowledge and global issues. Session 2024 will select 20 participants, with priority given to early-stage doctoral students as well as more advanced candidates and post-docs. The working languages are French and English, and all costs will be fully covered by the ADLP and the JRI of Global Africa.

The work resulting from the joint ADLP & Doctoral School will be the subject of a special issue to be published in March 2025 in Global Africa.