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.
This LeidenGlobal lecture on 27 September by Tycho van der Hoog (ASCL) will illuminate the obscure history of the fraternal relations between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and various African liberation movements. The lecture coincides with the photo exhibition 'Heritage on the move', currently to be seen in the hall of the Pieter de la Court building.
When Zimbabwe’s President, Emmerson Mnangagwa fled into exile in November 2017, he declared that ‘by the will of the people’ he would return as leader of the country. On 14 November 2017, a ‘coup that was not a coup’ was announced. A week later, Mnangagwa became Zimbabwe’s new president. In this seminar Sibanengi Ncube, University of the Free State, will argue that the opposition and civic organizations were recruited and used to settle ZANU PF factional scores.
The African Studies Centre's Annual Report for 2017 is out now! In 2017 the outcome of the external evaluation was generally positive about the ASCL, with particularly high praise for the Centre’s library. It was also the year in which senior researcher Prof. Chibuike Uche was appointed as the Chair holder for the new Stephen Ellis Chair for the Governance of Finance and Integrity in Africa at Leiden University.
