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14 February: Country Meeting Nigeria with panel discussion

On the occasion of the upcoming general and presidential elections in Nigeria (scheduled for 25 February), the ASCL, in collaboration with the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs and the ASCL Community, will organise a panel discussion on Tuesday 14 February.

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Interview with Robert Okello, winner Africa Thesis Award

Robert Okello (Development Studies, International Institute of Social Studies) is the winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2022. He wrote his thesis on the legal empowerment of rural women through digital technology in Northern Uganda. His thesis was partly inspired by the experiences of his mother with the Ugandan legal system.

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Just out: Swahili Poetry by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau

This book, edited by Annachiara Raia and Clarissa Vierke, is a pioneering collection of poetry by the outstanding Kenyan poet and imam Ustadh Mahmmoud Mau from Lamu island, once an Indian Ocean hub, now on the edge of the nation state. By means of poetry in Arabic script, he raises his voice against social ills and injustices troubling his community on Lamu.

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23 February: Etienne le Rossignol on moral humanism

On 23 February Etienne le Rossignol (Université de Namur) will kick off the ASCL Seminar Series 2023. Le Rossignol will talk about his research on the origins of moral universalism while looking at transhumant pastoralism - a livelihood in which populations seasonally migrate and herd livestock.

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ASA Meeting: Leiden-based Africa research in the spotlight

The Leiden African Studies Assembly (LeidenASA) held its Annual Meeting on 12 December. LeidenASA is the network of Leiden based Africa-researchers. It has more than 170 scholars who work on Africa-related research and education. Fifteen researchers gave pitches on their projects, and sketches of Leiden University's Africa strategy were outlined.

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Loes Oudenhuijsen awarded prize

PhD candidate Loes Oudenhuijsen has been awarded the 2022 Queer African Studies Association Prize for the Best Published Scholarly Essay by a Graduate Student. She won the prize for her article ‘Quietly Queer(ing): the Normative Value of Sutura and Its Potential for Young Women in Urban Senegal’, published in Africa in 2021. Congratulations Loes!

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Recent publications

(In)decent work for youth in agro-industrial value chains in Uganda
Tourism, Climate Change and Biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa
De vrijheidsstrijd van Guinee-Bissau door de ogen van een jonge dokter, Roel Coetinho
In This Fragile World - Swahili Poetry of Commitment by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau
How North Korean Ideology Inspired African Development

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14 February 2023
Community Country Meeting Nigeria: Elections panel discussion
23 February 2023
ASCL Seminar: Ancestral livelihoods and moral universalism - Evidence from transhumant pastoralist societies
20 April 2023
ASCL Seminar: Girls’ Education, Neoliberal Subjectivity, and Sacrifice in Niger

ASCL in the media

Annachiara Raia in NRC about the increased use of Swahili in African education
Annachiara Raia interviewed by LeidenGlobal about local epistemologies in East Africa
Jan Abbink in Business AM about the end of the Ethiopian conflict
Tycho van der Hoog in Beer Bound Podcast on the history behind Namibian beer
Ton Dietz in VPRO Gids on rapid economic developments in Africa
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