On 28 April Antonio Frank will defend his dissertation ‘Policing the Periphery: Party-anchored hybrid policing in Luanda, Angola’. His findings show that hybrid police networks in a number of suburbs in Luanda are anchored in the MPLA, the political party that has been in power since 1975.
What does it mean to choose hope in a world facing persistent conflict, climate breakdown, and inequality, without slipping into naive optimism or cynicism? During the ASCL Seminar on 7 May, Irene Guijt will explore hope as a deliberate practice and a driver of agency and leadership, with particular attention to African contexts. Join us!
On 19 April, zoologist, writer, painter and broadcaster Desmond Morris passed away. Morris invited Professor Emeritus Wouter van Beek to his home in Ireland in April 2024, to discuss African bronzes, Dogon art, Dogon people, brass casting, and Africa more broadly. Van Beek recollects.
Do you have a keen interest in Africa and are you looking for a suitable master’s programme? Then apply for the Master African Studies at Leiden University! The programme is unique in the Netherlands and highly recommended throughout Europe, including for its embedded research component.
Het ASCL biedt momenteel twee promotieplekken aan: één over multipolariteit en militaire samenwerking in Afrika, en één over klimaat en krijgsmacht in Afrika. De projecten zijn onderdeel van de Kennishub Afrika van de Nederlandse Defensie Academie (NLDA) en worden door het ASCL met de NLDA beheerd en begeleid.
The jury of the Africa Thesis Award is delighted to announce that the 2025 prize has been awarded to Yonwaba Matshobotiyana of the University of the Free State, South Africa, with a thesis on Black women's poetry in South Africa. The jury was blown away by this strong scholarly contribution to Black feminist thought and the field of decolonial literature studies.
28 April 2026
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