In line with Leiden University measures, ASCL staff will be working from home until 6 April. They can be reached by email (see organisation). The office is closed, but general questions can be sent to asc@asc.leidenuniv.nl. All events until 1 June have been cancelled. The ASCL Library will be closed until further notice.
In these times of Corona, also universities in Ghana have activated virtual learning programmes to reach their students. Non-availability of internet services in parts of the country and the fact that some of the students do not have access to laptops, are just some of the problems, writes Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, in a guest blog for the ASCL Africanist Blog.
The Africa Knows! conference will be the closing activity of the special 'Africa 2020' year. It wll take place from 2-4 December 2020 at the The Hague University of Applied Sciences/De Haagse Hogeschool. The main issues that will be addressed are: is Africa preparing itself for leapfrogging to innovations? What will the nascent multi-polar world of the 21st century mean for Africa’s role in knowledge and innovation? How do we finally decolonize the minds and change attitudes towards real co-creation? Deadline: 31 March.
The current corona crisis is revealing just how interconnected our world is. Perhaps more interesting, it also shows how continents, countries and localities are differently connected, and differently integrated in the global economy and in the global movement of people. Why does Africa seem so little affected in comparison to other regions of the globe? Mayke Kaag looks for answers in her latest blog post.
In the framework of the programme University of Edinburgh-University of Leiden Joint Funded PhD Studentships, the African Studies Centre Leiden will recruit two PhD candidates. The proposed research must address topics of urbanisation, urbanity, and urban diversity in relation to African Studies. The proposed research should also relate to one (or more) of ASCL’s priority research themes as identified by its Collaborative Research Groups. Submit your application online no later than 1 May 2020. Read more about the selection criteria.
On the occasion of the Africa 2020 year, the ASCL Library has compiled a web dossier about African leaders of independence. It is a ‘growing’ web dossier that will be expanded monthly. It has now been updated with sections on Togo and Mali, and their respective independence protagonists Sylvanus Olympio and Modibo Keïta. Read the web dossier!
