The 2021-2022 Master and Research Master in African Studies, as well as the LDE minors African Dynamics and Frugal Innovation for Sustainable Global Development have kicked off! Students of these programmes, that are (co-)organised by the ASCL, were welcomed in Leiden in the first weeks of September.
This seminar on 17 September is organised in the framework of 'Africa 2020' and coincides with Bert van Pinxteren's PhD Defence (16 September). In his dissertation, Van Pinxteren shows that maintaining former colonial languages as sole medium of instruction in higher education will become impossible to sustain. Over the next decade, more and more African countries will have to move towards increased use of African languages. Discussion with Maarten Mous, Kwesi Kwaa Prah, Azeb Amha, Mandipa Ndlovu, Akinyinka Akinyoade, and many others.
Mayke Kaag has been named professor by special appointment of the Anthropology of Islam in Africa and its Diaspora at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The chair has been established on behalf of the African Studies Centre Leiden. As a political anthropologist, Mayke Kaag conducts research on contemporary Islam in Africa and the African diaspora from the perspective of Africa's global connections.
The stakes of longitudinal ethnographic research come to the fore particularly starkly in relation to studies of violence. More specifically, longitudinality potentially both enhances certain risks inherent to carrying out research on violence, while also offering unique opportunities for better understanding the phenomenon more reflexively. Lidewyde Berckmoes, Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard and Dennis Rodgers wrote an introduction to a special volume of Conflict and Society. Open access!
The authors of this article, published open access in Health Systems & Reform, use three years of household panel data to analyse the effects of ill-health on household economic outcomes in rural Ethiopia. They examine the immediate effects of various ill-health measures on health expenditure and labour supply, the subsequent coping responses, and finally the effect on income and consumption. The need for health financing reforms and safety nets that reduce the financial consequences of ill-health is underlined.
