Het ASCL, het Zuid-Afrika Huis en Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society organiseren op 10 november een online Poëzieavond met Antjie Krog en Klimaatdichters Moya de Feyter en Saskia Stehouwer. Voertaal: Nederlands/Afrikaans.
This paper by Prof. Jon Abbink offers a political analysis of the development of the TPLF-induced armed conflict in northern Ethiopia and considers the international responses in media and international policy circles. In spite of the unilateral TPLF extension of the armed conflict since late June 2021, the responses of international policy circles, notably from the Western donor countries and the UN, have been negative towards the federal government and mild on the TPLF.
On 7 October 2021, Tanzanian novelist and university teacher Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021 'for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents'. Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 on the island of Zanzibar. He arrived in England as a refugee in the end of the 1960s. He is the focus of our latest Library Weekly!
Digital communication is assumed to have a severe impact both on how conflicts develop and how they are being mediated. There is, however, a need for more evidence on the role of digital media in regions of conflict. Addressing this challenge, the key goal of the DDMAC project is to gather empirical evidence defining and demonstrating the use, spread, content, and agenda-setting role of social media in regions of conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa. Read more about the project.
Jan-Bart Gewald, Professor of African History at Leiden University, has been selected as a fellow at Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) for the second semester of 2022. He will be working on the research project 'The "Big Hole", Kimberley South Africa, 1870-1920'. The chance find of a diamond on a small hillock in South Africa one hundred and fifty years ago initiated an industrial mining revolution, the effects of which continue to reverberate far into the future.
