In line with university measures, ASCL staff will work from home and can be reached by email. The Secretariat can be reached by email (asc@asc.leidenuniv.nl) or phone (+31 (0)71 527 3372). The library is open (reservation compulsory).
The ASCL Library recently acquired three books that constitute interesting sources for the colonial history of the Equatorial region. All three involve writings by Alfons Vermeulen, an employee of the ‘Nieuwe Afrikaansche Handels-Vennootschap’ (NAHV), the Dutch trading house active in the wider Congo region in the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th. Vermeulen's memoirs have now been published, edited and annotated by a member of his family, Fred van den Hoek. ASCL researcher Klaas van Walraven wrote a paper about these acquisitions.
Registration for the two Leiden-Delft-Erasmus (LDE) minors that the ASCL co-organises will be open until 15 April. It concerns the minor African Dynamics and the minor Frugal Innovation for Sustainable Global Development. The minors are accessible for third-year bachelor students from Leiden University, TU Delft and Erasmus University Rotterdam. These are selection minors: only 40 students can be accommodated per minor. Registration for both minors will close on 15 April 2021.
Global media discussion and policy responses to the armed conflict in Tigray Region, Ethiopia, are marked by bias and incompleteness in information sources and gaps in contextual understanding. In this paper (2nd edition) Jon Abbink analyses the emerging Atlantic discourse and some of its assumptions
En 2012 les auteurs de ce livre sont retournées au Mali-Sud, où elles ont travaillé dans le programme Femmes et Développement de la Compagnie Malienne pour le Développement des Textiles (CMDT) entre 1987 et 1995. Elles étaient curieuses de découvrir ce qui avait changé pour les femmes dans la zone cotonnière depuis 1980. Les femmes ont-elles pu améliorer leur position économique? More information and English translation: read more.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the way it is linked to the climate crisis underlines the necessity to decentre the human and embrace a multispecies approach, also to African Studies. What does a multispecies perspective mean for the discipline in terms of its curriculum and teaching? Harry Wels outlines three major adaptations he considers crucial - in his latest contribution to the ASCL Africanist Blog.
