The African Studies Centre Leiden is the only multidisciplinary academic knowledge institute in the Netherlands devoted entirely to the study of Africa. It has an excellent library that is open to the general public. The ASCL is an interfaculty institute of Leiden University.
In the 2018 Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture ‘What is prosperity for Africa?’, Prof. Henrietta Moore, Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity, questioned current ways of thinking about economic growth, prosperity and development. ‘How does economic growth translate into sustainable prosperity? Economic growth needs new academic modelling.’ The full text and a video registration will be published soon, but take a look at Prof. Moore's presentation and the pictures!
Annual meeting of the Leiden African Studies Assembly (LeidenASA). Keynote speaker Amanda Hammar (Centre for African Studies, University of Copenhagen) will talk about the production of knowledge in and about Africa. The programme also includes the award ceremony for the winner of the Africa Thesis Aaward 2018, Cynthia Olufade (University of Ibadan, Nigeria). All welcome!
On the occasion of the 2018 Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture by Professor Henrietta Moore on 6 December, the ASCL Library has created a web dossier 'Prosperity in Africa'. In recent decades, the realization that economic growth does not necessarily lead to better lives for all has become increasingly widespread. This web dossier showcases resources that challenge traditional economic models of growth, and that seek alternative ways of defining, measuring, and achieving prosperity. Read the web dossier.
This is the latest volume in the African Dynamics series. In this volume scholars from Southern Africa and Europe take a refreshing look at (the history of) nature conservation in Southern Africa. On the basis of overwhelming scientific evidence, they suggest that we should enter a new phase in nature conservation: sentient conservation. For although the subjectivity of people has been rendered visible in earlier publications on histories of conservation in Southern Africa, the subjectivity of animals is hardly ever seriously considered or explicitly dealt with.
The Library of the African Studies Centre Leiden is planning two important relocations in the coming months. From Wednesday 5 December 2018, 30,000 books from the ASCL collection will be temporarily moved to Leiden University Libraries at the Witte Singel 27. All books can be requested and picked up either at the ASCL Library or at the Witte Singel. From 2 January 2019, the library will undergo major maintenance. The ASCL Library will be temporarily relocated to the nearby Library of Social Sciences in the first week of January 2019. The library will return to its own location at FSW at the beginning of March.
