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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
28 January 2025
Jon Abbink's blog,The Sudan Impasse 2023-2025: Prospects for ‘Normal Politics’, discusses the ongoing devastating conflict in Sudan, which has persisted for nearly two years, leading to widespread suffering and humanitarian crises.
24 January 2025
On 24 January 1960, Sierra Leone Creole advocate, activist, teacher, fiction writer, and feminist, Adelaide Casely-Hayford passed away. As a pioneer of women's education in Sierra Leone, she played a key role in popularizing Pan-Africanist and feminist politics in the early 1900s.
23 January 2025
This seminar by Valentina Fusari (University of Turin) explores the lives of multiracial people in the Red Sea region from the 1800s to the 2000s. The Red Sea connects Africa, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean, making it a meeting point of different people and histories.
16 January 2025
During the Master's Open Day on Friday 14 February, you can find out all about the Master and Research Master in African Studies, the future prospects and what it's like to study at Leiden University. Come have a chat with students, alumni and lecturers and ask them your questions!
16 January 2025
Bij het Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden (ASCL), Universiteit Leiden, is een vacature voor een Student-assistent secretariaat voor ongeveer 16 uur per week, met ingang van 3 maart 2025.
16 January 2025
Preserving reason: a rationalist defense of the ‘Western telos’ in social science and the humanities
15 January 2025
15 January 2025
The ASCL is proud to have acquired the photo exhibition 'Traces'. The photos will be on permanent display in the ASCL hallways. TRACES is a photo-ethnographic project by researcher Lidewyde Berckmoes and photographer Marieke Maagdenberg that investigates how violent conflict reverberates across borders and generations.
15 January 2025
To start off the New Year the African Library has selected some great new books. Common thread: these books and writers offer new perspectives on Africa, from an African point-of-view. Check out the library picks from recent months!
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