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Remembering Paul Hebinck

We are saddened by the news that fellow Africanist Paul Hebinck passed away on 21 June. Paul worked at Wageningen University until his formal retirement three years ago. He was involved in the ASCL as a teacher in the Research Master African Studies, in various conferences, and as a Community member.

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Fellowship for Rahmane Idrissa at The Africa Institute (UAE)

Rahmane Idrissa has been awarded the Ali A. Mazrui Senior Fellowship in Global African Studies at the The Africa Institute in Sharjah (United Arab Emirates). Idrissa will devote the Fellowship mainly to write a book on the Songhay Empire in the global context of the birth of modernity. 

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Call for visiting fellows 2023

The ASCL calls for visiting fellows for a 90-day research fellowship in 2023. Visiting fellows use their time in Leiden for data analysis and/or writing, often on a joint project with one or more ASCL staff members. Preference will be given to applicants based in Africa. Application deadline: 24 July 2022.

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Submit your thesis for the Africa Thesis Award 2022!

Are you interested in Africa and is your master's thesis on a related subject? If so, the African Studies Centre Leiden is offering you the chance to win € 500,- and have your thesis published in the African Studies Collection. Submission deadline: 31 August.

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Azeb Amha visiting fellow at IASH, University of Edinburgh

Azeb Amha will be a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh in June and July 2022. Dr Amha is a grantee of IASH’s 2021 European Fellow Programme. She will work on her research on the language-culture nexus in the Omotic language family of Ethiopia.

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Deadline call for papers NVAS Conference

The Netherlands Association of African Studies dedicates its 25th anniversary conference to spoken mediation. Fighting with words can be as harmful as fighting with swords. Similarly, in reconciliation and cooperation, speech is an essential resource. Submit your papers before 31 August!

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Recent publications

“Stop Calling Me a Youth!”: Understanding and Analysing Heterogeneity Among Ugandan Youth Agripreneurs
Research Note: the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) Pamphlet Collection
"Ain’t I a bastard, well I received my training in Aussie”: the life of Frank Maybank, an Australian trade unionist in Central Africa
On the success and failure of North Korean development aid in Africa
A new chapter in Namibian history: reflections on archival research

Upcoming events

29 June 2022
CRG masterclasses at the ASCL: Sexual polemics in Africa: Public contestations around comprehensive sexuality education
12 July 2022
Séminaire : Commerce informel et contrebande de carburant. Dynamiques et logiques des acteurs dans l’espace frontalier de Bittou (Burkina Faso)
31 August 2022
Deadline call for papers NVAS 25th Anniversary Conference: Conciliation and conflict: The role of language in bridging social differences in Africa
31 August 2022
Submit your thesis for the Africa Thesis Award 2022!

ASCL in the media

Harry Wels in Omroep Brabant on 'African' pastries in supermarkets
Tycho van der Hoog cited in Artforum about North Korean statues in Southern Africa
Ton Dietz about how the war in Ukraine also affects Africa
Jon Abbink on EBC Languages about the threats of bills HR6600 and S3199
Jan-Bart Gewald in Mare about street names in the Leiden Transvaalbuurt
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