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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
07 June 2023
06 June 2023
The 9th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) took place from 31 May to 3 June in Cologne, Germany. More than 30 researchers from the ASCL and Leiden University convened a panel or presented a paper. Read the report about their contributions!
05 June 2023
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò is by now well known for his book 'Against Decolonization', which was recently translated into Dutch. The Professor of African Political Thought at Cornell University (USA) will give an ASCL Seminar on 7 September. The discourse on decolonisation is a distraction from Africa's much needed Second Freedom Struggle, Táíwò says.
05 June 2023
On 6 June 1936, Mozambican painter and poet Malangatana Valente Ngwenya was born in Matanala, a village in the south of Portuguese Mozambique. He was known for his large canvases and dramatic paintings and was also a sculptor. He frequently exhibited work under his first name alone, as Malangatana.