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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
11 October 2019
Prof. Jan Abbink was interviewed by the NOS about the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed Ali. According to Prof. Abbink, the award is an incentive to continue working towards democracy and synergy between the different population groups in Ethiopia - groups that were set up against each other under Abiy Ahmed's predecessors.
10 October 2019
Between 15 and 24 October Jan-Bart Gewald, Professor of African History at Leiden University, will be lecturing at seven universities in South Africa on new perspectives with regard to the period 1780-1840 in South Africa, which can be seen as one of the most fundamental periods of the country’s history. Prof. Gewald asserts that the ‘Time of Troubles’ can be better understood in the context of global interactions.
09 October 2019
08 October 2019
Studies on the religiosity of Sub-Sahara African Muslim migrants in Europe tend to give prominence to certain aspects of spirituality, like Sufism, but virtually not the wider question of belief and religiosity within the context of integration in a predominantly secular society. Taking belief as a multi-dimensional phenomenon with specific contexts, this study, therefore, seeks to enhance our nuanced understanding of Muslim religiosity among apolitical migrants who actively incorporate faith in their lives in secular societies accustomed to low-key approach to religiosity yet absorbed in the ‘war on terror’.
02 October 2019
02 October 2019
This international conference, organised by Prof. Chibuike Uche, wants to explore the diverse dynamics that impact on capital flows in Africa. Multinational companies are by far the largest source of both legal capital export and illegal capital leakage from the African continent. What about local companies?
01 October 2019
The ASCL is delighted that Emmanuel Akyeampong, Director of the Center for African Studies at Harvard University, will give the Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture 2019. Prof. Akyeampong will explore the nexus of spirituality, culture and political power in the connected lives of three first-generation African nationalist leaders: Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Sekou Touré of Guinea, and Leopold Senghor of Senegal. All welcome, please register!
01 October 2019
Disappointed that there was no children's book on African history from an African perspective, South African historian Nomalanga Mkhize decided to write it herself. In Africa with Avi and Kumbi is a fully illustrated adventure book that covers the history of Africa from the first humans, who left their marks in rock art, to important figures during the period of independence. And it is the subject of our latest Library Highlight!
27 September 2019
Namibian beer is celebrated as an inextricable part of Namibian nationalism, both within its domestic borders and across global markets. But for decades on end, the same brew was not available to the black population as a consequence of colonial politics. This book by Tycho van der Hoog aims to explain how a European style beer has been transformed from an icon of white settlers into a symbol of the independent Namibian nation. It is based on Van der Hoog's thesis for the Research Master in African Studies at Leiden University.