Malawi has been hailed as a beacon of democratic resilience, but a wave of high-level corruption scandals is threatening its institutions. With elections set for 16 September, Gerhard Anders (University of Edinburgh) will offer timely insights into the country’s political crossroads during the ASCL seminar on 11 September.

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced that Tanja Hendriks, along with 17 Leiden University researchers, will receive a Veni grant, embedded at the ASCL. Hendriks will work on the research project 'Taking risks with disasters: speculative humanitarianism and climate change in Malawi'.

In April 2023 violence erupted in Sudan between the armed forces and the RSF. Since then, the violence has taken the lives of more than 150,000 people and displaced over 12,000. In the media this conflict has received limited attention. The African Library has been keeping track of selected resources.

Submit your Africa-related master’s thesis for the Africa Thesis Award 2025, have it published and win €500! The Africa Thesis Award is an annual initiative by the African Studies Centre Leiden that recognises outstanding master’s theses on African topics.

In this book, John Kegel places the final phase of the four-year civil war that formed the immediate context of the Rwandan Genocide, at the heart of the narrative. Kegel contends that it forms the bedrock of a real understanding of Rwanda between 1990 and 1994, and beyond.

In a blog for the Global Health in Africa course of the Research Master African Studies, student Christiana Banja argues that we need to think differently about health in Africa: one that is fair, respectful, and includes everyone’s voice.