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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
29 April 2024
25 April 2024
The Library of the African Studies Centre Leiden will be closed from Monday 20 May until (including) Tuesday 4 June 2024. The library of the ASCL will re-open as the African Library on Wednesday 5 June in the Herta Mohr building, located at the Faculty of Humanities.
22 April 2024
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the aftermath of multiple natural disasters in Malawi, Dr Tanja Hendriks (KU Leuven) will zoom in on different characteristics of disaster governance, detailing how civil servants navigated the numerous demands placed on them. Join us for this event in our new seminar room or attend online!
16 April 2024
On 17 April 1929, the Senegalese author and feminist Mariama Bâ was born. Bâ was born in Dakar, into an educated and well-to-do Senegalese family of Lebu ethnicity and was raised a Muslim. Her two novels, So Long a Letter (1979) and Scarlet Song (1981), were written in French and translated into more than a dozen languages.