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New logo, new website!

The African Studies Centre Leiden proudly presents its new logo! It depicts a frame through which the ASCL observes, researches and describes Africa. With the new logo comes a new website with a fresh look, which we will continue to work on in the coming months.

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Interview Jan-Bart Gewald on the 'Big Hole' diamond mine

On the occasion of Jan-Bart Gewald’s selection as a fellow at Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), we interviewed him about the research project The 'Big Hole', Kimberley South Africa, 1870-1920 which he will conduct there. ‘Without “the Big Hole”, southern Africa wouldn’t exist as it is now.' 

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New exhibition: 'Born Free: Mandela's Generation of Hope'

The new photo exhibition 'Born Free - Mandela's Generation of Hope' by Ilvy Njiokiktjien can be seen in the corridors of the ASCL (third floor) and on the first floor of the Pieter de la Court Building until 31 July 2022. During her work in South Africa, photo journalist Ilvy Njiokiktjien became intrigued by the 'born-frees', born after the end of apartheid.

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Annachiara Raia awarded Veni grant

Annachiara Raia has received funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for the research project 'Forging Transoceanic Muslim Histories: Swahili Literary Networks on the 20th-Century Indian Ocean Coast'. From the 1930s in East Africa, a massive print production of Swahili religious pocket literature started.

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Ton Dietz about how the war in Ukraine affects Africa

The war in Ukraine also has an impact on Africa: 45 of the 54 African countries depend for more than a third on grain from Ukraine and Russia. Ton Dietz was interviewed about the consequences of this war on the African continent, in the 'Africast' podcast.

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Just out: The Stephen Ellis Reader

When ASCL researcher Stephen Ellis died in July 2015, African Studies lost one of its most prolific, provocative and celebrated scholars. This collection, edited by Tim Kelsall, aims to provide scholars and students with an introduction to the main themes in Ellis’ work.

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Recent publications

Making ‘The Process’: Sexual Vulnerability and Burundian Refugee Boys and Young Men’ Strategies for Onward Migration from Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda
Charlatans, Spirits and Rebels in Africa. The Stephen Ellis Reader
Routledge Handbook of the Horn of Africa
Africa’s Perceptions, Prospects, and Strategies towards the US-China Tech Competition
A Liberian life: Memoir of an academic and former Minister of State for Presidential Affairs

Upcoming events

24 May 2022
ASCL Seminar: 'Christianity is now your tribe': Mission, Education, and Ethnicity in Colonial South Sudan
31 May 2022
Seminar: Fleeting Commitments or Can the Museum be Decolonised?
01 June 2022
Workshop: Gaping Holes: Towards multi-species histories and ethnographies of mining in southern Africa
06 June 2022
Leidse Wereldwandeling: Sporen van Afrika in Leiden

ASCL in the media

Ton Dietz about how the war in Ukraine also affects Africa
Jan-Bart Gewald in Mare about street names in the Leiden Transvaalbuurt
Jon Abbink on EBC Languages about the threats of bills HR6600 and S3199
Tycho van der Hoog quoted in article about agricultural cooperation between Guinea and North Korea
Jan Abbink on radio about Eshetu A.'s appeal at the Court of Appeal
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