News & Events

An impressive total of 21 graduates of the Bachelor, Master and Research Master African Studies received their diplomas on 18 November during a festive ceremony in the Academy Building in Leiden. Congratulations to you all!

In this blog based on her fieldwork in Uganda, Winnie Nakatudde shares the voices of young urban refugee girls who question the labels placed on them. She shows how the term ‘refugee’ can erase stories, stigmatise in classrooms, and disrupt learning, while the girls themselves reveal ambitions.

This week, we celebrate the Cameroonian historian and political theorist Achille Mbembe, who will be awarded the 2025 Spinozalens in The Hague on 24 November. Mbembe born in Otélé, Cameroon (1957), is well known for his writings on African history and politics, postcolonial studies and social science.