News & Events

The ASCL has been awarded grants by NWO-WOTRO for two new research projects: ‘Aid chain dynamics in development advocacy’ and ‘Building legitimacy for land rights advocacy’. Both projects are a mutual undertaking with Radboud University, one in cooperation with the University of Nairobi, and one in cooperation with Moi University, Eldoret. 

The conference ‘Destination Africa’, organised on 22-23 March in Leiden, will explore the idea of contemporary Africa as a global meeting point. Important questions include the ways in which people in Africa perceive the new influx and how they navigate, negotiate and possibly struggle to strike a balance between their own interests and those of the ‘newcomers’, including questions concerning integration, and the distribution of profits and resources. Check out the programme!

This year’s Annual Meeting of the Leiden African Studies Assembly (LeidenASA) will take place on 7 December. The Meeting is open to all members of LeidenASA, staff and students of Leiden University. Also Africanists and students of Delft University and Erasmus University are welcome as they are part of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus strategic alliance. Prof. Elísio Macamo (Centre for African Studies, University of Basel) will give a keynote speech: 'If Africans could Speak: Knowledge and Authority in African Studies', and the Africa Thesis Award will be presented to its winner, Adriaan Steyn, alumnus of Stellenbosch University (South Africa).