News & Events

Since the early 2000s, Rwanda has been praised for its high number of women in Parliament. However, critics argue that President Paul Kagame's government is an authoritarian regime that silences political opposition. Xianan Jin (University of Exeter) will explore this paradox during the ASCL Seminar on 3 April. Join us!

On 24 January 1960,  Sierra Leone Creole advocate, activist, teacher, fiction writer, and feminist, Adelaide Casely-Hayford passed away.  As a pioneer of women's education in Sierra Leone, she played a key role in popularizing Pan-Africanist and feminist politics in the early 1900s.

This seminar by Valentina Fusari (University of Turin) explores the lives of multiracial people in the Red Sea region from the 1800s to the 2000s. The Red Sea connects Africa, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean, making it a meeting point of different people and histories.

During the Master's Open Day on Friday 14 February, you can find out all about the Master and Research Master in African Studies, the future prospects and what it's like to study at Leiden University. Come have a chat with students, alumni and lecturers and ask them your questions!

Bij het Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden (ASCL), Universiteit Leiden, is een vacature voor een Student-assistent secretariaat voor ongeveer 16 uur per week, met ingang van 3 maart 2025.

The ASCL is proud to have acquired the photo exhibition 'Traces'. The photos will be on permanent display in the ASCL hallways. TRACES is a photo-ethnographic project by researcher Lidewyde Berckmoes and photographer Marieke Maagdenberg that investigates how violent conflict reverberates across borders and generations.