News & Events

On 28 April Antonio Frank will defend his dissertation ‘Policing the Periphery: Party-anchored hybrid policing in Luanda, Angola’. His findings show that hybrid police networks in a number of suburbs in Luanda are anchored in the MPLA, the political party that has been in power since 1975. 

This week we celebrate Zanele Muholi, who won this year's Hasselblad Award. Muholi is a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation. Muholi's work focuses on race, gender and sexuality, documenting and celebrating the lives of South Africa's Black lesbian, gay, transgender, and intersex communities. 

On 2–3 March, the 'Green Hydrogen South–South Dialogue from Below' took place in Namibia. This event brought together community representatives, indigenous leaders, and civil society organisations from Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia.

Describing almost 1400 Africa maps in three months: it’s no small task that student assistants Artemis Mantheakis and Beatriz Veiga have been working on within the joint ASCL-UBL Africa Maps Project. The aim is to describe a 20th-century map collection of the library of the African Studies Centre, that is housed in the Leiden University Libraries (UBL).